Security News > 2020 > March > Websites of U.S. Presidential Candidates Pose Security, Privacy Risks
The majority of primary campaign websites of United States presidential candidates run code that can pose security and privacy risks to consumers, The Media Trust has discovered.
The security firm has monitored 11 websites during September and December 2019, and discovered that 81% of them execute code from third-party entities unmanaged by the candidate teams.
Although many candidates dropped out of the race, their websites continue to be active, drawing traffic and asking visitors to share their personal information.
In a newly published report, The Media Trust revealed that one of the analyzed websites directed consumers to media websites that served adware.
In these incidents, the Klobuchar website linked to a news story hosted on two different media websites that delivered adware.