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  • Malvertising Is Maturing, And So Must Our Industry

    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.