Results for 'click fraud'
WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin
February 16, 2023 - WordPress is an immensely popular content management system (CMS) powering over 43% of all websites. Many webmasters will monetize their sites...
Adult popunder campaign used in mainstream ad fraud scheme
December 20, 2022 - This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura Online advertising is a multi billion dollar industry with projected spending to reach over 600...
Fake tractor fraudsters plague online transactions
October 18, 2022 - The agriculture sector has been under fire from digital attacks for some time now. The primary problem so far has been ransomware,...
Beware scammers disguised as fraud busters
April 29, 2022 - Fraudsters like confusing and disorienting people. Successful ones avoid obvious lines of approach and try things you wouldn’t expect. A recent...
Combatting SMS and phone fraud: UK government issues guidance
January 20, 2022 - The UK’s National Cyber Secuity Centre (NCSC) has published a guide to help make your organization’s SMS and telephone messages effective...
Phishers spoof reliable cybersecurity training company to garner clicks
September 23, 2020 - “It happens to the best of us.” And, indeed, no adage is better suited to a phishing campaign that recently made...
Study explores clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites
August 27, 2019 - Clickjacking has been around for a long time, working hand-in-hand with the unwitting person doing the clicking to send them to...
Malwarebytes helps take down massive ad fraud botnets
November 28, 2018 - On November 27, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of eight individuals involved in a major ad fraud case...
The many faces of omnichannel fraud
September 12, 2018 - The rise of new technologies, social networks, and other means of online communication have brought about compelling changes in industries across...
Terror EK actor experiments with URL shortener fraud
July 19, 2017 - Terror EK is an exploit kit made from a mishmash of stolen code and with very limited distribution. In the past few months,...
