57 percent of internet users are worried about malvertising

According to a new survey by advert filtering company AdGuard, 57 percent of internet users have either fallen prey to advert scammers, or are worried about malicious and phishing advertising. In addition 48 percent of respondents have experienced privacy issues with tracking requests hidden in online ads, leading to the email spam, unwanted incoming calls and IM chats. "We expect the volumes of malware distributed by hijacked ad networks to rise, since online advertising remains largely unregulated and prone to scammer abuse," Adguard's CTO Andrey Meshkov says. "Ad blocking as we know it these days must be viewed as web… [Continue Reading]