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WatchGuard Security Prediction #5 \u2013 Jar Jar Can\u2019t Resist Ads from the Dark\u00a0Side<\/u><\/a><\/h2>\n

by Corey Nachreiner<\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Malvertising, the combination of the words malware and advertising, is an attack where criminals booby-trap a legitimate, trusted website with a malicious code by sneaking it in through a third party advertising network. Unfortunately, legitimate web advertising services haven\u2019t been very discerning with the ads they allow their \u201ccustomers\u201d to upload to their networks.<\/p>\n

Prediction video link: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ps2ylLVGyCc<\/u><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

As a result, criminals have paid for advertising services in order to sneak malicious code onto all the legitimate web sites that use that service. Over the past two years, this has been a very successful technique for cyber criminals to redirect innocent users browsing the web to their malicious drive-by download sites.<\/p>\n

The good news is a number of reputation services and security products have become better at detecting malicious advertisements, and preventing your users from getting redirected to these evil sites. However, the criminals are fighting back. They have started to implement a number of techniques to obfuscate their malicious web code, including encoding their malicious JavaScript or by burying their attack in a Shockwave video file. The most recent obfuscation technique is the simplest\u2014they serve their malicious advertisement over HTTPS.<\/p>\n

In 2016, expect malvertising attempts to triple and for it to succeed more regularly due to its use of HTTPS. Criminals know that security products and companies are keeping\u00a0on the look\u00a0out for malicious ads. They also know that many security controls cannot see into HTTPS traffic. By encrypting their malvertising campaigns, they hope to bypass most detections next year. If you don\u2019t have security controls that can monitor HTTPS, you should update as soon as you can.<\/p>\n

Visit our\u00a0WatchGuard security predictions site<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Corey Nachreiner, CISSP<\/u><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(<\/em>@SecAdept<\/u><\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n