Malvertising stories
One in Three UK consumers believes that over half of online ads are now AI generated but are unaware of how risky they are to click on.
Malicious ads are becoming hard to spot, warns Avast in its Q1/2024 Threat Report. Even legitimate platforms like YouTube are now targets for sophisticated malvertising schemes.
Avast's Q1 Threat Report spotlights a surge in AI-driven cyberattacks, with 90% of threats involving social engineering, deepfakes, and YouTube scams.
Red Canary's 6th annual Threat Detection Report reveals a substantial rise in Cloud Accounts compromises and abuses of Email Forwarding Rules, among major cybersecurity threats in 2023.
Avast blocks 10 billion cyber threats, highlighting an alarming surge in new threats as cyber attackers find innovative ways to exploit trusted digital mediums.
Avast blocked 10 billion cyberattacks in 2023, up 49% on the prior year, with cybercriminals deploying sophisticated methods including deepfake scams and exploiting PDF files and Google OAuth to steal user information.
Kaspersky reveals FakeSG, Akira, and AMOS as latest cross-platform cyber threats, highlighting the need for constant vigilance.
Global cybersecurity firm GeoEdge has discovered a large-scale malvertising attack targeting home-network based IoT devices.
Malvertising may be going out of fashion for cyberattackers across the board, but it doesn't mean web users can rest easy.
