CYA 2025: Open Web at a Precipice
From the executive summary of CYA 2025: Digital Media Under Assault As consumers flocked to news and political websites for the latest updates on the 2024 US presidential election, the phishers flooded the ad pipes to meet them. The Media Trust’s real-time threat prevention script, Media Filter, blocked a stunning amount of malvertising starting in […]
When CAPTCHAs Attack: ClickFix Tricks Users Into Giving Up Device Access
Human verification systems on websites may have long annoyed digital consumers, but they also have reason to fear them — or at least fake ones that could enable threat actors to steal their life savings. A widespread malvertising attack dubbed ClickFix uses a bold new bogus CAPTCHA scheme to trick vulnerable consumers into running scripts […]