Ad security company Confiant claims it has identified an ongoing cookie-stuffing scheme allegedly perpetrated by Dataly Media, an affiliate marketing platform based in Ecuador. The purported cookie-stuffing practices date back to at least 2015 and underpin a large part of the company’s affiliate marketing business conducted since that time, according to Confiant.
Only the strong survive: This has long been an inspirational tenet for ad tech, but it also describes the industry’s insidious malvertising problem.
Better technology and broader awareness have mostly constrained the most conspicuous breed of malvertising – forced redirects – that plagued us five years ago. What’s left now is a new strain of attacks that are more diverse, more profitable and harder to detect: malicious clickbait, tech-support scams and malware-infected software downloads.
Whenever there’s a sociopolitical or economic crisis, the lowest rung of online marketers finds a way to prey on the vulnerable and disenfranchised. The pending overturn of Roe v. Wade is no different – it’s creating a new class of online audiences that are potential prey, and publishers can stand to take more steps to filter out misleading ads (like donation scams and brand infringement) that harvest and sell users’ personal information.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. iO-SOS More than 70% of Apple devices have upgraded to the latest operating system, with the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy. And now mobile advertisers and ad tech are starting to feel the pain, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev Memo. The loudest […]
