There’s been a number of data breaches and accidental data exposures coming to light in the last few days, and no…
Tag: advertising
Stripchat bot spells block
Here at Malwarebytes, we spent a lot of time and effort scouring the Internet looking for malicious websites that we can…
Adware vs. ad fraud
Adware and ad fraud are in the same business and both don’t care very much how they make money, as long…
Snapchat rebrands, introduces new ad platform and hardware
When Google Glass was first released in 2013, the Internet giant also pushed out a guideline for Glass Explorers, telling them…
“Your Android is Expired!”
We’ve seen reports of a dubious URL being served up via mobile advertising over the last day or two. This is…
Advertising Brokers: A Background Information
This post is intended to give you some background information about advertisement brokers, the men and women that are in the…
IRISSCON 2015 Presentation: “Bad Ads”
If you’re going to be in Ireland on November 19, please consider paying a visit to the fantastic IRISSCON Security Conference,…
The Grey Side of Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising is a headache because of its intrusiveness, the amount of bandwidth used, and other unexpected nefarious behaviors. I get…
AdChoices, interest based advertising
Did you ever notice the AdChoices icon while you were surfing? Ads like these show up all across the Internet. Sometimes…
Real-Time Bidding and Malvertising: A Case Study
Malvertising continues to be one of the biggest and most effective infection mechanism which, for the most part, is based on rogue advertisers…