Malvertising
MALVERTISING Malvertising — or malicious advertising — is a relatively new cyberattack technique that injects malicious code within digital advertisements . Difficult to detect by both internet users and publishers, these infected ads are usually served to consumers through legitimate advertising networks An Example of Malvertising is given below:- RoughTed is a malwertising campaign that was able to circumvent both ad-blockers & anti-virus solutions through a series of dynamic URLs. The criminals behind RoughTed leaveraged a complex ad exchange network, as well as Amazon cloud infrastructure and it's content daily network (CDN) to carry out this attack.
