Crime group hijacks hundreds of US news websites to push malware

A cybercriminal group has compromised a media content provider to deploy malware on the websites of hundreds of news outlets in the U.S., according to cybersecurity company Proofpoint.
The threat actors, tracked by Proofpoint as “TA569,” compromised the media organization to spread SocGholish, a custom malware active since at least 2018.
The media company in question is not named, but was notified and is said to be investigating. Sherrod DeGrippo, vice president of threat research and detection at Proofpoint, tells TechCrunch that the organization provides “both video content and adverti

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