Advertising malware rates has reached an alarming rate in a year.

As Ad networks have been hit with a string of compromises in recent months, many of the infections are making it through to consumers. A sourse studied by Cyphort found that instances of malware served by ad networks more than tripled between June 2014 and February 2015, based on monthly samples taken during the period. Dubbed "malvertising," as thid attack sneaks malicious ads onto far-reaching ad networks which deliver those malware-seeded ads to popular websites, which pass them along to a portion of the visitors to the site. The attacks typically infect computers.

August 25, 2015

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