The Media Trust Blog
Catch up on our insights into all things digital.
Sep 18, 2020
German Publishers at Increased Risk of Celebrity Bitcoin Scams
Significant increase in Celebrity Bitcoin scams in August, with Germany one of the targeted geographies
Aug 17, 2020
TCF 2.0 Global Vendor List available via The Media Trust Platform
The Media Trust enables partners easy access to global vendor status and legal basis when evaluating GDPR risk.
Media, Ad Tech
Jul 28, 2020
Malware Attack Bypasses Blockers to Target Consumers
Large-scale ICEPick-3PC leverages 3 major DSPs to phish and load unwanted programs on Android devices
Jul 27, 2020
Digital Insights Drive Better Websites and Mobile Apps
Industry benchmark provides much-needed context to a more comprehensive understanding of how client-side code affects end-user security and data…
Jul 01, 2020
ICEPick-3PC Spikes During Pandemic
COVID-19 fueled spike in ICEPick-3PC malware discovered and shut down through ad industry collaboration.
May 20, 2020
Rogue Third-party Code Driving Ad Fraud
Behavior of third-party widget changed to serve at least 50 brand webpages to users via an off-page iframe driving thousands of non-viewable…
Apr 13, 2020
Enterprises on the Alert for New Malware and Breach Sources
COVID-19 is driving exponential increase in malware especially in at-home environments
Apr 13, 2020
Adtech & Publishers on the frontline of COVID-19
Catch up with this on-demand discussion regarding Publisher and AdTech approaches for managing coronavirus scams and malware
Mar 30, 2020
Digital Risk in the COVID-19 Age
Free resources you can access to help the broader ecosystem avoid being manipulated to cause harm
Mar 25, 2020
U.S. Presidential Election 2020
Evaluating the security and data protection risks candidate websites present to consumers
Media
Mar 23, 2020
Ad Quality gets the upper hand on COVID-19 Scams
Tactics clients should use to identify and block Coronavirus scams from their digital ecosystem
Ad Tech
Mar 06, 2020
Phishing Gets in Digital Motion with Vertigo-3PC
Mobile-specific malvertising campaign targets devices in motion and explodes its reach in four weeks among Demand Side Platforms