VAST Tags With Malicious Intent: Inside GhostCat’s Video Assault

The Media Trust’s Malware Desk takes a deep dive into an expansive phishing attack’s video invasion Externally, it seems like just another Video Ad Serving Template (VAST) tag with a parameter pointing to an MP4 file hosted on a major cloud storage platform. However, this seemingly innocuous advertisement is but the tip of the iceberg—the […]

Video Hit by Tsunami of Phishing Redirects

Insidious GhostCat malvertising primarily leveraging VAST tags to attack consumers Online consumers looking for quality video content have received a slew of nasty surprises this year as the nefarious GhostCat phishing attack has begun delivering redirects through video players. This ongoing outbreak has impacted at least three dozen ad platforms, hundreds of premium publishers, and […]