Malvertising Increases in Digital Scams

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Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams

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Malwarebytes: Malvertising in the US was up 42 percent month-over-month in fall 2023 .

The bulk of the activity traces back to South Asia and Southeast Asia .

Malvertising is a cyberattack technique that injects malicious code into digital ads.

The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime reports that malicious ads have been incorporated into pig butchering and other investment scams.

But both Sophos and Malwarebytes researchers also regularly see malicious ads running against frequent searches like those for Google, Walmart , Disney+ , Slack, Lowe’s , and Apple . Segura even says that Malwarebytes itself has to invest heavily in buying search engine ads just to keep malvertising at bay for the company's brand. “We have to defend our brand so much,” he says. “People take advantage of that.”.

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