clean.io Blog / Malvertising Data

Over the past three months, the cleanAD network has seen an explosion of a particular brand of scam, surrounding an energy-saving system that the Advertising Standards Authority and other watchdog …

As the holiday season approaches, Q3 closes with massive 231% spikes in malvertising threat levels with new evasive attacks from familiar foes. And for the world of online advertising, the …

Malicious landing page attacks have dominated the malvertising ecosystem the last couple of weeks, making up more than half of all attacks in the past 30 days. These types of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ok, I admit it, the question posed in the title is actually a trick question. The answer is basically impossible to determine for a few reasons: The programmatic advertising ecosystem …

Every quarter, clean.io publishes the SMART (Summary of Malicious and Reputational Threats) Report, which summarizes insights on malvertising threat levels and attack trends across more than 7 million websites in …

One of the most common questions we are asked about the data we collect on malvertising attacks across our network is: “when do attacks happen?” Everyone wants intel on when …

As a publisher, you know Q4 is your quarter. The advertising industry sees a huge spike in advertising dollars during the final quarter of the year, and upwards of 30-40% …