Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from buying ads
Its software is already banned from US government computers, and now Kaspersky Lab’s advertisements have been banned from Twitter. The …
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Twitter Blocked Kaspersky Ads, Pointing to US Government Ban
The fallout for Kaspersky continues. Friday, the cybersecurity firm announced that, in January, Twitter banned Kaspersky from running …
Next-Generation TVs Include Viewer Tracking, Personalized Ads
Over the last few years, television tech has taken genuine leaps and bounds. New technologies haven’t just given us higher resolutions, …
Microsoft Begins Flagging uTorrent as Malware
The popular torrent client known as uTorrent has millions of users, many of whom have been using it for a decade. uTorrent (or micro-torrent, as it was sometimes called) gained popularity by living up to its name as a minimalist, fast torrent manager….
Twitter Bans Crypto-Currency Ads in Fraud Crack Down
Twitter yesterday started banning all crypto-currency advertising in a bid to head off rising levels of fraud permeating the burgeoning …
Pop-up Ads & Hundreds of Websites Helping to Distribute Botnets, Cryptocurrency Miners and Ransomware
A Malicious Software Downloader called ICLoader through Popup Ads and over hundreds of websites are pushing various PUA such as …
Cambridge Analytica’s Ad Targeting Is the Reason Facebook Exists
This weekend, while Facebook was quibbling about whether the information used by Cambridge Analytica to target voters in the lead up to the …
Cryptocurrency ad bans are a step in the right direction
Google just banned cryptocurrency and ICO ads, a move that follows Facebook decision to do the same. The language is …
Google Joins Facebook In Banning Cryptocurrency Ads
Google announced on Wednesday that in June company will ban ads for cryptocurrencies and related products like Initial Coin Offerings, …
Mobile Ad Trojans Evolve to Maximize Profits
Mobile advertising Trojans have begun to use monetization schemes involving paid SMS and WAP-billing services in order to preserve and …
Google Filters Annoying Ads But Does Nothing For Security
Google Chrome now blocks 12 types of online advertising by default. Last week, Google began rolling out a new functionality in its Chrome …
Google Chrome’s Ad Filtering, Intel Expands Bug Bounty Program, GNOME 3.28 Beta and More
News briefs for February 15, 2018. Starting today, Google Chrome will begin removing ads from sites that don’t follow the Better Ads …
Hackers are using YouTube Ads to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency
Diego Betto’s CPU usage on YouTube More: The biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrency $534 Million stolen CoinHive is a company that …
YouTube Is Serving Covert Cryptocurrency Mining Ads
Stealth cryptocurrency mining in one’s browser, without the user’s permission, is one of our least-favorite trends of the past six …
Hackers Abuse Google Ad Network To Spread Malware That Mines Cryptocurrency
More than a decade ago Google bought DoubleClick, one of the first major advertising services on the Web, for a cool $3.1 billion. That …
HTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to fingerprint netizens
Usenix Enigma HTML5 is a boon for unscrupulous web advertising networks, which can use the markup language’s features to build up detailed …
Malicious Code in Kids Game Apps on Google Play Pushing Porn Ads – More than 60 Game Apps Infected
Cybercriminals started focussing on game apps which are used by children to install fake apps, registering premium services and porn ads. …
Stealthy Crypto-Miners Are Slipping Into Web Ads
A stealthy attack that slips cryptocurrency miners into ads on unsuspecting websites is making the rounds, according to Israeli adtech firm …
Ad scripts track users via browser password managers
Researchers have spotted a sly new technique adopted by advertising companies to track web users that can’t be stopped by private …
Ghostery 8 Deploys Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against Ad Trackers
Most ad blockers—and there are so, so many of them now—operate roughly the same way, comparing the scripts they encounter on a given …
Twitter Bans RT and Sputnik Ads Following Election Meddling
Twitter has decided to ban Russian-Linked media companies Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik from buying ads on its platform, blaming their …
Senators Unveil Bill For Transparent Social Media Ads After Russian Election Interference
Senators on Thursday introduced a bipartisan bill to require online platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter to disclose more …
Equifax Website Caught Serving Malicious Ads to Visitors
The hits just keep on coming for Equifax. This time, the company’s website was caught serving up …
WordPress Ad Widget 2.10.0 Local File Inclusion
WordPress Ad Widget plugin versions 2.10.0 and below suffer from a local file inclusion …
Drive-by mining and ads: The Wild Wild West
There seems to be a trend lately for publishers to monetize their traffic by having their visitors mine for cryptocurrencies while on their site. The idea is that you are…
I Helped Create Facebook’s Ad Machine. Here’s How I’d Fix It
magnificently embarrassing public-relations disasters rocked the Facebook money machine like nothing else in its history. First, Facebook revealed that shady Russian operators purchased political ads via Facebook in the 2016…
How BitPaymer ransomware covers its tracks
Thanks to Anand Ajjan and Dorka Palotay of SophosLabs, and Paul Ducklin of Naked Security, for the research this article is based on. Ransomware is a blunt instrument that wants…
Ad agencies are upset about Apple’s new cookie-blocking tech for Safari
This week most major advertising organisations all cried out in pain after Apple announced that it would be improving user privacy on macOS. Apple is planning to integrate cookie-blocking technology…
Facebook’s Ad Platform Is Easily Gamed And Your Privacy Is Cheaply Bought
Facebook’s ad platform has a big advert verification problem. Read full news article on Forbes.com