Malvertising in Govt, Enterprise Targets Old Software, Macs
A new report on malicious advertising underscores the importance of using modern web browsers and...

Hackers Have Breached 60 Ad Servers to Load Their Own Malicious Ads
A mysterious hacker group has been taking over ad servers for the past nine months in order to...

Malvertising Levels Down In 2019; IBVs Petering Out
In 2019, one in every 150 digital ad impressions was dangerous or disruptive to the viewer,...

WOOF locker: Unmasking the browser locker behind a tech support scam
In the early days, practically all tech support scammers would get their own leads by doing some...

Security Concerns Regarding Malvertising are High, Despite Reduction of Bad Ads
Credible publishers who depend on ads to generate revenue online surely understand how troubling...


61% of malicious ads target Windows users
Most malvertising campaigns (malicious ads) target Windows users, according to statistics shared...

Malvertising is on the decline but serious security issues remain
Malvertising is a thorn in the side of legitimate publishers that rely on ads to generate revenue...

Almost 60% Of Malicious Ads Come from Three Ad Providers
In Confiant's "Demand Quality Report for Q3 2019", the ad fraud and security company analyzed 120...

macOS users targeted with new Tarmac malware
Security researchers have discovered a new piece of Mac malware; however, some of its purpose and...



Malvertising Attack Hijacks 1B+ Sessions With Webkit Exploit
Researchers have discovered a new wave of attacks launched by the threat group eGobbler where...


Webkit zero-day exploit besieges Mac & iOS with malvertising redirects
Attackers have bombarded the Internet with more than 1 billion malicious ads in less than two...

eGobbler Malvertiser Uses WebKit Exploit to Infect Over 1 Billion Ads
Roughly 1.16 billion ad impressions have been hijacked in a malvertising campaign operated by a...

EGobbler Malvertising Campaign Targets Safari & Chrome Users
Attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome and Safari web browsers and served up more...

iPhone Users Warned To Update As 1.1 Billion Attack Is Confirmed
I first wrote about eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a...

Malicious Ads and In-Banner Video Hit Lowest Rates Since Early 2018
Confiant, the leader and innovator in advertising security, today released its Demand Quality...

Programmatic Check: Malicious And In-Banner Video Ads Drop In Q2
Amid all of the headlines about ad fraud comes some reasonably good news, for a change: Both...

Malvertising Found In 1 In Every 100 Ad Impressions
Amid all of the headlines about ad fraud comes some reasonably good news, for a change: Both...

Healthcare – Fighting the Cyber Infection Epidemic
For most of the population, cyber-security is not the first item that comes to mind when thinking...


