Miscreants turn to ad tech to measure malware metrics

Cyber baddies have turned to ad networks to measure malware deployment and to avoid detection, according to HP Wolf Security. The security group's Q4 2023 Threat Insights Report finds criminals have adopted ad tech tools to make their social engineering attacks more effective. "Cyber criminals are applying the same tools a …

[Pascal Monett]

"ad tech to measure malware metrics"

Only fitting that the tech that legally punishing us for having the gall to want to view a web page should also be used to help miscreants find out just how well they are punishing us for being on the web in the first place.

[bemusedHorseman]

Re: "ad tech to measure malware metrics"

Considering the ad networks are themselves being used as the infection mechanism (merely viewing a mundane web page that just happens to pick a specific ad can infect you with zero user interaction) and has been for years... it's not that surprising.

The Chocolate Factory gets kickbacks directly from malware authors to whitelist their malicious ads and that's the real reason they're on a crusade against adblocking, change my mind.

[Peter Galbavy]

Not sure there was ever much of a difference between the two uses given

[Blackjack]

Will the PDF format ever die? Most likely not at this rate.