Tech Support Scam Hitting Microsoft Edge Start Page Takes a Break

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A sophisticated browser locker campaign that ran on high-profile pages, like Microsoft Edge's home or popular tech sites, was deactivated this week after in-depth research was published.
 
The actors behind it used a compromised an ad content supplier for top-tier distribution and combined targeted traffic filtering with steganography.
 
This mix allowed the operation to survive for at least two years, bringing victims to a tech support scam page and threat researchers to a dead end as they scratched their heads about how the redirect to the fake malware reporting page happened.

Read more: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...s-a-break/

Full Report: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-ana...port-scam/