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Holidays have historically been times when malvertising threat levels surge. There are a number of reasons for this, ranging from increased use of less-secure mobile devices, to decreased monitoring as …

Nothing is more confusing and frustrating than when you are on a familiar webpage and suddenly your browser sends you across the web to another brand’s site. Sudden redirects not …

Malvertisers have a whole deck of cards to play when it comes to defrauding advertisers and publishers. Many of these strategies happen behind the curtains of your site, and go …

In the ad protection industry, you will often hear the term “ad cloaking” being used in a variety of different ways. Many providers will claim you are protected from “cloaked …

This is the first article in a new series called “Data Snacks” that will briefly highlight unusual malvertising activity as it occurs. Each Data Snack will cover what happened, why …

In July of 2019, IAB introduced two new technical solutions to the supply side of online advertising. Sellers.json and the SupplyChain Object brought increased transparency to the convoluted buyer market, …

The current state of the online ad industry is far from perfect. A clean and transparent solution to harmful malvertising has yet to be executed across the online advertising ecosystem, …

A study by Statista recently found that roughly 27 percent of internet users in 2021 have ad blocking extensions installed on their preferred web browsers. These free and increasingly popular …

The U.S. Cybersecruity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released new guidelines last month, urging federal agencies to protect themselves from malvertising by installing ad blockers on all employee computers. This …

It’s no secret, malvertising is destructive to the user experience Some publishers don’t have malvertising protection, while others have solutions that are simply not effective. But end users aren’t the …