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title: High-volume eGobbler malvertising attack exploits zero-day Chrome bug
description: Eliya Stein said the operation was among the top three massive malvertising campaigns that we have seen in the last 18 months
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**SCmagazine** Apr 19, 2019 12:00:00 AM  •   Just a short read!

# High-volume eGobbler malvertising attack exploits zero-day Chrome bug

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A malicious actor has been leveraging a Google Chrome browser exploit to deliver malvertisements to iOS users, including a campaign earlier this month during which 500 million user sessions were exposed to a session hijacking attack.

Dubbed eGobbler by researchers at [Confiant](https://www.scmagazine.com/?s=Confiant), the threat actor from April 6-10 ran a massive operation consisting of eight individual campaigns and more than 30 fake creatives. Each mini-campaign lasted around two days and had its own unique targeting, although most affected publishers were based in the U.S.

In a company [blog post](https://blog.confiant.com/massive-egobbler-malvertising-campaign-leverages-chrome-vulnerability-to-target-ios-users-a534b95a037f), Confiant researcher Eliya Stein said the operation was among "the top three massive malvertising campaigns that we have seen in the last 18 months."

**Read Complete Article:** [https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/high-volume-egobbler-malvertising-campaign-exploits-zero-day-chrome-bug/](https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/high-volume-egobbler-malvertising-campaign-exploits-zero-day-chrome-bug/)

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