ScamClub Threat Intelligence Report Overview
UPDATE: On September 27, 2023, Motorik contacted us to validate our discoveries, affirming that...



Confiant Discovers Increased DCCBoost Attacks In The USA
Forced redirect Scareware by DCCBoost Confiant sends a red button alert to our customers whenever...


Why should good advertisers care about bad ads
The answer to the seemingly simple question is complicated because digital advertising is so...

Bad Trip: Fake travel sites abuse search ads to commit fraud and credential theft
By Daniel Fonseca Yarochewsky In this article, an ingenious but shameful malvertising campaign is...

Threat Intelligence Red Button Security Alert: DCCBoost Attacks 05.09.2023
Forced redirect scareware by DCCBoost Confiant alerts our customers whenever significant,...

How does disinformation affect user engagement?
The phrase “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes,” has been...

Threat Intelligence Red Button Security Alert: DCCBoost Attacks
Forced redirect Scareware by DCCBoost Confiant alerts our customers whenever significant,...

The importance of demand fraud malvertising: An advertiser’s guide
We all know ad fraud, also known as invalid traffic, occurs when malicious actors manipulate...

Malvertiser D-Shortiez Redirect Tricks Exposed
Summary Over the last few years, as AdTech and browser security has continued to mature, many...


How malvertising affects the entire organization and what businesses can do to stop it
Globally, one in every 500 online ads exhibited security issues, reported in the Confiant 2022 H1...

Malvertising Attack Through VDO.AI
Timely Alerts Confiant alerts our customers whenever significant, widespread malvertising attacks...

Malvertising Metaphor - Outages and Speed of Response
Bad Stuff Can Happen What happens when the world’s largest ad server network goes down? Google Ad...

MAQ 2021 WRAP UP: 1 in every 125 ad impressions dangerous
Confiant finds One in Every 125 Ad Impressions Dangerous or Disruptive to Users In 2021 The...

Looking back on 2020: Review on Malvertising activity and Ad Quality
This gif summed up 2020 fairly well: Source: Giphy Although most of us are glad that the dumpster...


Malvertising activity in November
This blog post series recaps some of the large attacks Confiant observed and prevented during...

Malvertising activity in September
This blog post will recap some of the large attacks Confiant observed and prevented during...

Stopping wapSiphone: A Malvertising Threat to Mobile Devices
Threat actors are always developing creative new ways to circumvent obstacles that block their...

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...
