As we covered a couple weeks ago, crypto-mining is one of the newest emergent threats in the online advertising ecosystem. Users' computers are being used to mine crypto-currencies, like Bitcoin, without their knowledge and their CPU usage is being drained. Since it was first identified, it has been a priority at...
Another day, another malvertising attack. Cybercriminals are using malvertising to push hard-coded snippets of JavaScript code to mine for cryptocurrencies – right within an unsuspecting user’s web browser. Distribution is being expanded to file-sharing websites and unsuspecting downloaders are getting infected....
Without digital advertising, 90% of the web wouldn’t be able to exist. (Ok, maybe 90% is an exaggeration, but you get the point.) Digital advertising has been critical to the development of the internet. It’s most significant contribution is so obvious, it’s almost easy to overlook – money. The revenue advertising...
Liftable Media, Inc. is a top 10 digital publisher consistently ranked among the Top 50 most visited media networks in the U.S. By working with GeoEdge, Liftable Media has not only reduced ad complaints significantly, but also has found an 83% decrease in offensive and latent ads!
Taggify, the premier online ad supply-side platform (SSP) has announced that since utilizing GeoEdge’s anti-malware and ad quality management solutions, they have reduced the number of complaints from SSP partners by 90%.
“Working with GeoEdge has helped us to improve, not only in malware and ad quality detection a...
Mobile advertising is becoming THE digital advertising space. The global mobile advertising market will surpass $100 billion in spending and account for 50% of all digital ad expenses by 2016. Moreover, mobile ad spending will double between 2016 and 2019, reaching 195 billion dollars, accounting for 70.1% of digit...
Because of the holiday season, bad actors, who typically make their money by slipping malicious ads onto popular websites, swarmed the Internet with malvertising. With events like Black Friday producing over 3 billion dollars in spending, holiday time is always prime tim...
