Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
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Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
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Re: Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
#2I have a feeling everyone with understanding of the situation or even a vague malaise opening a news article and being bombarded with popups that intercept their attention knows why ad blockers are needed, and any perceived "discourse" to the contrary is one sided, from the ad agencies and media platforms that largely and subversively direct the narrative.
It's getting harder by the day to tell sentiment apart from narrative.
Re: Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
#3I have a feeling everyone with understanding of the situation or even a vague malaise opening a news article and being bombarded with popups that intercept their attention knows why ad blockers are needed, and any perceived "discourse" to the contrary is one sided, from the ad agencies and media platforms that largely and subversively direct the narrative. It's getting harder by the day to tell sentiment apart from n…
"You will be annoyed" and "you will be served malware" are two different classes of need. The first is enough to get me running Firefox/uBlock Origin on my own devices. The second is what got me to run it at work.
Re: Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
#4Are the crypto addresses known/recorded anywhere? would be interesting to see on the blockchain how much was stolen this way.
Re: Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
#5Probably should just link to the security researcher's post, since it's far more informative:
https://doublepulsar.com/adform-compromised-to-serve-crypto-...
Re: Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
#6Ad blockers at dns level too, not just browsers. A lot of people don’t even know how to block them, check your parents or kids (or non technical people in general) phone and you will see how they are riddled with ads. I had a dns blocker installed on my parents phones and in around 6hrs it blocked 10k queries from 3 apps only..
Re: Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
#7Are the crypto addresses known/recorded anywhere? would be interesting to see on the blockchain how much was stolen this way.
The code in question is here: https://pastebin.com/raw/mc7psaNF
It appears to be normal Adform code plus two appended chunks at the end.
Bitcoin: bc1qmplgt0hcg62jc2guz86wn2sms7tqrsulkkrrls
Ethereum: 0xE7983E69df17079ADb0aD7b3458488Cac0dBc573
TRON: TW4AgGnDc2Pk6YAynCtjCKzoKYWPg7nJe (?)
~$110k bitcoin
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1qmplgt0...
~$55k in ETH
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/eth/0xE7983E69...
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Re: Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
#10I have a feeling everyone with understanding of the situation or even a vague malaise opening a news article and being bombarded with popups that intercept their attention knows why ad blockers are needed, and any perceived "discourse" to the contrary is one sided, from the ad agencies and media platforms that largely and subversively direct the narrative. It's getting harder by the day to tell sentiment apart from n…
Nobody wants ads (*) but somehow they are never banned.
Makes you wonder, are we living in a democracy or not?
(*) shown at inconvenient moments and tracking the user; yellow pages were fine