Confiant alerts our customers whenever significant, widespread malvertising attacks occur in the programmatic ecosystem. Confiant has been tracking a significant increase in ScamClub forced redirect volumes and alerted clients on February 3, 2023.
ScamClub is one of the longest-standing threat actors in the malvertising scene, with a continuous presence for at least the last six years. They specialize in creating relationships with high risk ad platforms and executing forced redirect campaigns with very repetitive patterns.
The typical January CPM drop has allowed ScamClub to gain scale since early January.
Elevated volumes since early January with a spike in the last week.
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More information on ScamClub can be found in Confiant's Malvertising Attack Matrix.
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