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?
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...
We have all seen the recent stories on BBC, Guardian, CNN, Reuters, and other news outlets regarding the rise of ad-driven consumer investment scams...
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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07/21/2021
Confiant achieves largest data set of monitored impressions in the AdTech sector
We just passed the 2 trillion monitored impressions milestone! Since...
12/29/2020
Malvertising, a word that blends malware with advertising, refers to a technique cybercriminals use to target people covertly. Typically, they buy ad...
12/10/2020
New York, N.Y., – November, 18, 2020 First-to-market creative verification, ad blocking and malvertising detection solution Confiant, has hired Steve...
09/14/2020
I first wrote about eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a history of compromising adverts in their hundreds of...
09/9/2020
The Tag Barnakle malvertising group is hacking into Revive ad servers to inject and deliver malicious advertisements on unwary visitors.
08/15/2020
A hacking group is targeting companies using the self-hosted ad serving platform Revive to inject and deliver malicious advertising to website...
08/15/2020
A new report on malicious advertising underscores the importance of using modern web browsers and making sure your operating system is up to date...
08/15/2020
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...
08/15/2020
In 2019, one in every 150 digital ad impressions was dangerous or disruptive to the viewer, according to Confiant’s just-released Demand Quality...
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