Navigating the malvertising nightmare
The online world has never been more dangerous. How can companies protect themselves and their employees from cyber risk?
Two Trillion Ad Impressions and Counting
Confiant achieves largest data set of monitored impressions in the AdTech sector
We just passed the 2 trillion monitored impressions milestone! S...
What is malvertising? And how to protect against it
Malvertising, a word that blends malware with advertising, refers to a technique cybercriminals use to target people covertly. Typically, they...
Confiant Hires exec Steve Rubinstein for COO role
Confiant Expands, Confirming of Malvertising Defense and Prevention Software Market
New York, N.Y., – November, 18, 2020 First-to-market creative...
iPhone Users Warned To Update As 1.1 Billion Badvert Attack Is...
I first wrote about eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a history of compromising adverts in their hundreds of...
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.
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...
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...
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...