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 […]
StringRipper Phishing Attack Grows 3X in Q1 2025
For the past several months, The Media Trust has been battling StringRipper, a fierce evolving malicious campaign forcing redirects and delivering phishing attacks via scareware. Display and native ad tags with StringRipper phishing attacks have tripled in the first quarter of 2025 — and the vast majority are coming from a single upstream ad partner […]