Malvertising activity in September
This blog post will recap some of the large attacks Confiant observed and prevented during...
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...
Publishers are Worried About Political Ads this Election Season
Online political advertising is exploding. Back in 2008, candidates spent a meager $22.25 million...
SSPs aren't created equally: Insights into which SSPs drove the most problematic impressions in Q2, 2020
As the programmatic landscape continues to evolve post-COVID, we take a look back at last quarter...
Stopping wapSiphone: A Malvertising Threat to Mobile Devices
Threat actors are always developing creative new ways to circumvent obstacles that block their...
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...
Ad Security Issues In July
This is the first of monthly blog posts where we’ll provide a recap of ad security incidents for...
A Publisher’s Guide to Evaluating Ad Security and Ad Quality Solutions
Digital publishers seemingly face a dilemma between protecting their audiences from malicious,...
Gain more control over your ad experience with Brand & Category Controls (Beta)
Today, we’re excited to announce the beta release of Confiant’s Brand and Category Controls, the...
The Evolution of Malvertising and its Impact on the Future of Publishing
Malicious advertising, also known as malvertising, is a common and highly-profitable security...
Forced redirects now. What's next?
Back in January, our research team uncovered a threat actor, we labeled as FizzCore, who didn't...
Success Story: How Complex Media prevents revenue & user disruption by controlling the Ad experience
Complex Media is a multimedia platform and online community that publishes premium content around...
What ad quality issues do top publishers care about?
It will come as no surprise to digital publishers that in 2020 ad blockers remain a top cause of...
