“Threat actors are using the compromised infrastructure of an undisclosed media company to deploy the SocGholish JavaScript malware framework (also known as FakeUpdates) on the websites of hundreds of newspapers across the U.S.
“The media company in question is a firm that provides both video content and advertising to major news outlets. [It] serves many different companies in different markets across the United States,” Sherrod DeGrippo, VP of threat research and detection at Proofpoint, told BleepingComputer.”
