Malvertising Press Aug 15, 2020 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Aug 15, 2020 12:00:00 AM Malvertising Levels Down In 2019; IBVs Petering Out In 2019, one in every 150 digital ad impressions was dangerous or disruptive to the viewer,...
Press Aug 15, 2020 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Dec 8, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Dec 3, 2019 12:00:00 AM A Tech Monopoly That Elizabeth Warren Could Love? LD Mangin, the CEO of the advertising security company Confiant, says it’d be best for his clients...
Press Dec 3, 2019 12:00:00 AM 61% of malicious ads target Windows users Most malvertising campaigns (malicious ads) target Windows users, according to statistics shared...
Press Dec 2, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Nov 26, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Oct 11, 2019 12:00:00 AM macOS users targeted with new Tarmac malware Security researchers have discovered a new piece of Mac malware; however, some of its purpose and...
Press Oct 1, 2019 12:00:00 AM ‘Tarmac’ malware hits Mac computers through malvertising Mac computers are thought to be one of the most secure personal computers in the market. However, a...
Press Oct 1, 2019 12:00:00 AM Surge of malicious ads target iOS and macOS users By exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Safari, cybercriminals were able to serve over...
Press Oct 1, 2019 12:00:00 AM Malvertising Attack Hijacks 1B+ Sessions With Webkit Exploit Researchers have discovered a new wave of attacks launched by the threat group eGobbler where...
Press Sep 30, 2019 12:00:00 AM Malvertiser exploited 2 browser bugs to show 1 billion malicious ads Over the past six months, a criminal group specialized in showing malicious ads (malvertising) has...
Press Sep 30, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Sep 30, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Sep 30, 2019 12:00:00 AM EGobbler Malvertising Campaign Targets Safari & Chrome Users Attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome and Safari web browsers and served up more...
Press Sep 30, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Aug 19, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Aug 19, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Aug 19, 2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
Press Jul 24, 2019 12:00:00 AM Healthcare – Fighting the Cyber Infection Epidemic For most of the population, cyber-security is not the first item that comes to mind when thinking...
Press Jul 22, 2019 12:00:00 AM Microsoft apps infected in major malvertising campaign Microsoft users are being warned to beware a dangerous new malware family that is seeing malicious...
Press Jul 18, 2019 12:00:00 AM Windows 10 Users Warned Of 100M Advert Bombs Security Threat Security researchers have uncovered a security threat that's seen users of Windows 10 desktop apps...
Press Jul 18, 2019 12:00:00 AM Hong Kong Malvertiser Runs Malicious Tech Ads In Microsoft Apps Within the last few months, a malvertiser has been pushing malicious tech support scam ads to users...