Advanced Persistent Adware: Analysis of Nation-State Level Tactics

FedScoop: The Booz Allen Dark Labs’ Advanced Threat Hunt team recently discovered a unique form of adware lurking on networks that evades all traditional forms of cyber defenses. The adware is a previously known threat that is commonly used to inject advertisements into a user’s browser and covertly collect information about the user’s browsing activity.

Adware is often ignored during security operations because it is generally considered unsophisticated, is prevalent, and has a low perceived threat level.

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