Navigating the malvertising nightmare
The online world has never been more dangerous. How can companies protect themselves and their employees from cyber risk?
The online world has never been more dangerous. How can companies protect themselves and their employees from cyber risk?
Wow, Confiant just earned a Net Promoter Score (NPS)® of 86 from our valued customers' ratings in May 2022! Here's a shout-out to everyone in our...
In Part I and Part II we discussed how Ad-Based Investment Scams have become a worldwide problem with significant losses to individuals, very few...
In Part I we discussed how financial scams were increasing rapidly in Europe. Here’s what’s been going on in the US and Australia during the same...
At the heart of the whole privacy discussion is the question, “Why is the information (data) tracked in the first place?”
Every trusted signal is a potential target for forgery, and privacy consent signals are no exception.
As of July 1, 2021, the California Attorney General (AG) began sending violation notifications to companies not in compliance with privacy-consent of...
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10/1/2019
Researchers have discovered a new wave of attacks launched by the threat group eGobbler where victims are redirected to websites with malicious...
09/30/2019
Over the past six months, a criminal group specialized in showing malicious ads (malvertising) has used two obscure browser bugs to bypass browser...
09/30/2019
Attackers have bombarded the Internet with more than 1 billion malicious ads in less than two months. The attackers targeted iOS and macOS users with...
09/30/2019
Roughly 1.16 billion ad impressions have been hijacked in a malvertising campaign operated by a threat group dubbed eGobbler to redirect potential...
09/30/2019
Attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome and Safari web browsers and served up more than 1 billion malicious ads to users between...
09/30/2019
I first wrote about eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a history of compromising adverts in their hundreds of...
05/17/2019
Nefarious ad activity continues to dog marketers as perpetrators of ad fraud will cost them about $5.8 billion this year, per a report from the...
04/24/2019
According to a blog post from researchers at Confiant, there is a current malvertising campaign that is specifically targeting iOS users. The...
04/22/2019
Confiant has spotted the known threat actor eGobbler back in action. This group is well-known for attempting its campaigns around holidays, which is...
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