Navigating the malvertising nightmare
The online world has never been more dangerous. How can companies protect themselves and their employees from cyber risk?
Revive Ad Servers Being Hacked to Distribute Malicious Ads
The Tag Barnakle malvertising group is hacking into Revive ad servers to inject and deliver malicious advertisements on unwary visitors.
Numerous Sites Leak User E-Mails to Advertising Analytics Services
Multiple online services and products are leaking email data belonging to their users to third-party advertising and analytics companies, shows a...
Hacking Group Targets Companies Using Revive Ad Serving Platform
A hacking group is targeting companies using the self-hosted ad serving platform Revive to inject and deliver malicious advertising to website...
PubForum Spotlight: We’ve Always Been At War With Bad Ads
Imagine back to that more innocent time when people began “surfing the World Wide Web.” The first time you saw a digital ad, you probably marveled at...
Louis-David Mangin, CEO & Co-founder of Confiant on Digital Ad Quality
Consumers of digital content have long been plagued by the "bad ad" — bad ad being a placeholder for many ills caused by less than ideal actors...
Malvertising in Govt, Enterprise Targets Old Software, Macs
A new report on malicious advertising underscores the importance of using modern web browsers and making sure your operating system is up to date...
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 insert malicious ads into their ad inventory, ads that...
Malvertising Levels Down In 2019; IBVs Petering Out
In 2019, one in every 150 digital ad impressions was dangerous or disruptive to the viewer, according to Confiant’s just-released Demand Quality...
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 amateur SEO poisoning and keyword stuffing on...