A new report on malicious advertising underscores the importance of using modern web browsers and making sure your operating system is up to date with the latest security updates to prevent being ...

Google announced plans today for three new Chrome security features that will block websites from sneakily redirecting users to new URLs without the user or website owner's consent. While all three ...

December 2, 2015 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google In the never-ending battle against security threats on the internet, there’s a new enemy spreading rapidly: ...

Nation states exploit programmatic ad tech to attack rival countries. The prevalence of malvertising – the practice of serving ads infected with malware – is both a fact and a growing problem. The ...

Threat actors appear to have found yet another innovative use case for artificial intelligence in malicious campaigns: to create decoy ads for fooling malvertising-detection engines on the Google Ads ...

Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site visitor’s computers. The news page looked perfectly ...

Hackers that employ malvertising techniques to target victims are getting more sophisticated, and that's bad news for publishers and marketers hoping to guard themselves against such threats.

Criminals have found a safe haven abusing legitimate processes, such as real-time bidding, implemented by online advertising networks to move exploits and malware, and build botnets and fraud ...

Confiant shared their data from the July 4th weekend, and it came out exactly as they predicted. “On Sunday, we've monitored a large attack (redirects to carrier-branded scams), similar to the ones we ...

When dealing with a medium as flexible as the Web, it’s impossible for the site owner to fully control what a user sees. The user doesn't need the site's consent to change the user interface or ...

Advertising is a fact of life on the internet. As the primary source of income for huge publishers and social media platforms, it can be tough to avoid. The best ads are engaging, amusing and ...

Servers used to show adverts on a popular YouTube to MP3 conversion website have been compromised in order to spread the GreenFlash exploit kit and Seon ransomware ...