clean.io Blog / Malvertising

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 …

I’m going to start this article with a scary story to set the stage. Imagine walking into a store to purchase something. You find an item you like, and you …

2020 was an unusual—and eventful—year in the worlds of malvertising and programmatic advertising. COVID drove significant shifts in brand advertising spend, and the resulting changes in CPMs opened up opportunities …

Q4 of 2020 saw a relatively steep decline in mobile and social threat levels, while mobile still remains the highest producer of threats overall. This trend piqued our interest and …

When it comes to identifying and reporting on malvertising threats, there is one huge elephant in the room that nobody wants to address. (source) That elephant is “false positives.” A …

One of the most confusing parts about malvertising, and malware in general, is understanding how the perpetrators use these techniques to actually make money. There are a lot of smoke …