prehistoric-systems/uBlock
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock.git synced 2026-03-11 09:04:36 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

Updated Dynamic filtering: Benefits of blocking 3rd party iframe tags (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2015-10-13 15:14:32 -04:00
parent 69742f6b73
commit 47d23a7aea
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

5
Dynamic-filtering:-Benefits-of-blocking-3rd-party-iframe-tags.md

@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
### Malware protection
`iframe` tags are very often used by malware code on compromised web sites. A recent example of this is ~~[Firefox's javascript-based PDF reader](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/)~~ [Malware With Your News? Forbes Website Victim of Malvertising Attack](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/09/malvertising_attack.html).
`iframe` tags are very often used by malware code on compromised web sites. A recent example of this is ~~[Malware With Your News? Forbes Website Victim of Malvertising Attack](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/09/malvertising_attack.html)~~ [Angler Exploit Kit Blasts Daily Mail Visitors Via Malvertising](https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2015/10/angler-exploit-kit-blasts-daily-mail-visitors-via-malvertising/).
Using 3rd-party-sourced `<iframe>` to inject exploit on a user's computer is quite a common technique:
- [_"Malware With Your News? Forbes Website Victim of Malvertising Attack"_](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/09/malvertising_attack.html) (newly added)
- [_"Angler Exploit Kit Blasts Daily Mail Visitors Via Malvertising"_](https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2015/10/angler-exploit-kit-blasts-daily-mail-visitors-via-malvertising/) (newly added)
- [_"Malware With Your News? Forbes Website Victim of Malvertising Attack"_](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/09/malvertising_attack.html) (recently added)
- [_"Malvertising Hits Online Dating Site PlentyOfFish"_](https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2015/08/malvertising-hits-online-dating-site-plentyoffish/)
- [_"Firefox exploit found in the wild"_](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/)
- [_"Advert Strikes Out Via Copycat Gaming Site"_](https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2015/07/advert-strikes-out-via-copycat-gaming-site/)