Malvertising Violations Reach Three Year Peak, Says Confiant
Advertising technology security leader publishes 2023 annual Malvertising & Ad Quality (MAQ)...


Malvertising Violation Rate at Highest Level in Two Years, According to Confiant 2022 H1 Report
Malvertising cybersecurity and threat intelligence provider, publishes semi-annual MAQ report Key...

Confiant Wins “Best Ad Analytics Solution” in 2022 MarTech Breakthrough Awards Program
Prestigious International Annual Awards Program Recognizes Standout Marketing, Advertising and...



Confiant Finds One In Every 125 Ad Impressions Dangerous or Disruptive to Users in 2021
Cybersecurity ad tech company’s MAQ report states Fridays and Saturdays had the highest security...


New Privacy Compliance Solution: Monitor and Block Non-Compliant Creatives in Real Time
Confiant Privacy Compliance Product complements CMPs by detecting issues that occur when an ad...

Smart AdServer achieves top ranking in "Most Secure Ad Platform" of 2020 According to Recent Analysis by Confiant
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 30, 2021 - According to advertising security leader,...

Confiant Launches New Native Ad
NEW YORK March 25, 2021 – Cybersecurity startup Confiant, Inc., the market leader in ad security...

iPhone Users Warned To Update As 1.1 Billion Badvert Attack Is Confirmed
I first wrote about eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a...

Revive Ad Servers Being Hacked to Distribute Malicious Ads
The Tag Barnakle malvertising group is hacking into Revive ad servers to inject and deliver...

Numerous Sites Leak User E-Mails to Advertising Analytics Services
Multiple online services and products are leaking email data belonging to their users to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Malvertising Levels Down In 2019; IBVs Petering Out
In 2019, one in every 150 digital ad impressions was dangerous or disruptive to the viewer,...

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...

Security Concerns Regarding Malvertising are High, Despite Reduction of Bad Ads
Credible publishers who depend on ads to generate revenue online surely understand how troubling...


61% of malicious ads target Windows users
Most malvertising campaigns (malicious ads) target Windows users, according to statistics shared...
