How to Defend Against the Rise of Malvertising
As the digital world barrels deeper into 2025, one thing is clear: the open web is under siege. Cybercriminals are evolving faster than many publishers, ad platforms, and brands can react, unleashing a relentless wave of malvertising, phishing redirects, and deceptive scams. In our CYA 2025: Digital Media Under Assault report, we show the volume […]
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 […]