EvilTraffic
Aliases: Operation EvilTraffic
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- organization
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:55:50
Targeted industries: technology-and-telecommunications media-and-entertainment retail-and-hospitality
Context
Malware experts at CSE Cybsec uncovered a massive malvertising campaign dubbed EvilTraffic leveraging tens of thousands compromised websites. Crooks exploited some CMS vulnerabilities to upload and execute arbitrary PHP pages used to generate revenues via advertising.
Reports & references
- securityaffairs.co — Eviltraffic Malvertising Campaign (report)
- cybaze.it — 20180121 Cse Massive Malvertising Report (report)