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An ongoing malvertising campaign is exploiting WordPress plugin vulnerabilities to redirect website visitors to malicious pages.

Researchers at Defiant, the company behind the Wordfence security plugin for WordPress websites, have come across a malvertising campaign that leverages recently disclosed plugin vulnerabilities...

A sophisticated and growing malvertising attacker is partnering with legitimate ad tech platforms to drop malware at scale.

Indictment Alleges Years-Long Scheme Infected Millions of PCsA Ukrainian national is facing wire fraud and other charges stemming from his alleged involvement in a years-long malvertising scheme...

A Ukrainian national was indicted in the United States for his role in a years-long, international scheme to infect computers with malware via online advertisements, or malvertising.  read more

Researchers said 1 million user sessions could have been exposed to the campaign, which downloads the Shlayer trojan.

A new Chrome feature hopes to choke off one of the most malicious forms of malware infection: drive-by advertising downloads.

The whole attack takes place in under a minute.

Researchers say the bad actor behind the malvertising campaign is still active.

A criminal posing as a legitimate website publisher on the AdsTerra online advertising network is using maliciously gathered traffic to deliver victims to exploit kits.