As maladvertising content, prove to be so commonplace, is crafted to target specific groups of people, StormEye suggests users to be vigilant when visiting unfamiliar websites or clicking into advertisements and links sent by their friends and someone unknown. should not blindly trust the content of every website especially when the content or website itself…
Since late June, 2019, StormEye team have observed a rise of Facebook advertisements related to Alan Tam’s secret investment. It raised our caution that this might be related to a series of cryptocurrency scam or maladvertising events. The following screenshot shows one of the Facebook advertisements we have captured and collected. Figure 1 Screenshot of…
With this proven case, StormEye extended its instigations to other potentially malicious Facebook advertisements. One prominent celebrity Mr. Andy Lau was found to have been victim to maladvertisements which have the same. We observed that this could be an auto-generated maladvertisment with selected celebrities to lower the users’ suspicious so as to lure them into…
Data Collection StormEye began the investigation on 2 Sept 2019 and collected the related Facebook advertisements between 2 Sept 2019 and 13 Sept 2019. StormEye completed the analysing of the collected data on 18 Sept 2019 and has concluded 26 of them could be validated against the defined criteria, as shown below. All the validated…
StormEye, based on initial validated suspicion of these Facebook advertisements were but a concerted malicious campaign carried out by hackers, began to collect data and proofs of validity from multiple locations and thereupon performed an in-depth analysis that covered more advertisements than a single person is able to reach due to the restriction imposed by…
In July 2019, StormEye, in its routine scouting over online security landscape, spotted irregularities in multiple Facebook advertisements related to Mr. Alan Tam’s investment of Bitcoin. The series of advertisements triggered StormEye’s alert system which ran on the back of Facebook softened the advertisement policy related to cryptocurrency and blockchain and the speech made by…
“The UK government will fine companies in “critical industries” up to £17 million if they have woefully inadequate cybersecurity defenses. The penalty system is a response to an EU directive, passed in August 2016, that was drawn up to ensure its member states are prepared for modern cyber attacks. Known as the NIS directive, it will be transplanted…