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Malvertising
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Malicious advertising campaigns, sponsored-search abuse, fake software ads, and ad-delivered malware threats.
Zero-Click Spyware Was Delivered Through Online Ads: How AdFection Worked
Citizen Lab traced zero-click spyware from a targeted ad to 45 Al Jazeera devices. Here is how AdFection worked and what defenders should block.
SourTrade Malvertising Makes Browsers Build Malware in Memory
Confiant says the SourTrade malvertising campaign impersonates TradingView, Solana, and Luno, then uses service workers and shared workers to make a victim’s browser assemble a unique Windows malware file in memory. The technique weakens hash-based detection and gives crypto users another reason to avoid sponsored-download paths.