- Programmatic Landmine: Ads Can Appear On Sites That Harm The Brand
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Sunday, August 11, 2024
Racist and pornographic sites abound, and not all tools can block the ...
- Microsoft Earnings Show How AI Will Play In Advertising
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Microsoft reported Q4 2024 earnings Tuesday, showing search and ad revenue ro ...
- Something Phishy About AI: Threat Actors Are Using It In Email Attacks
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Almost half of all email scams are in the business email compromi ...
- Meta Removes Thousands Of Accounts Driving Global Sextortion Scams
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, July 25, 2024
Meta is following its recent launch of "sextortion" prevention tools by removi ...
- X's Blue Checks Dupe Users, Violate European Law, Regulators Charge
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 12, 2024
"Back in the day, BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information ...
- Meta Battles Billionaire Over Fake Crypto Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 8, 2024
Meta Platforms is seeking to immediately appeal a ruling that allows Australi ...
- Mike Huckabee Sues Meta Over Phony CBD Endorsements
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 3, 2024
"Because Meta approved and maintained advertisements that unauthorizedly used and exploited plaintiff ...
- Meta Must Face Billionaire's Suit Over Fake Endorsements Of Phony Crypto
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest can proceed with a lawsuit against Meta Platfor ...
- DoubleVerify: Generative AI Driving 'Significant' Increase In Ad Fraud
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 17, 2024
DoubleVerify research reveals a surge in new fraud schemes and variants ...
- AI Garages: Fake News Sites Can Harm Legitimate Publishers
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Defamation suits are just one of the problems that can occur wh ...
- Meta Must Face Suit Over Scam Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 10, 2024
A federal appellate court has revived a lawsuit by two Meta Platfor ...
- AI Phishing Bait: Technology Drives Massive Surge In Cyber Crime
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 24, 2024
Phishing artists are also using QR-based attacks, SlashNext reports. ...
- My Amateur Sleuthing Is No Match For AI Spam
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, April 29, 2024
It's a digital jungle of spam, scans and criminal pings. ...
- Court Rules Apple Co-Founder 'Woz' Can Sue YouTube Over BitCoin Scam
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 3, 2024
A California appellate court confirmed this week that Apple co-founder Steve Wozni ...
- Phishing, Smishing, Taxes: Scam Artists Are Active As April 15 Approaches
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Email and SMS are being utilized for ever more nefarious schemes, t ...
- Meta Urged To Beef Up Efforts To Protect Users From Account Takeovers
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 6, 2024
"Consumers are reporting their utter panic when they first realize they ha ...
- Google, Bing Under Fire For Serving AI Deepfake Porn In Some Search Results
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 12, 2024
Bing, Google, and DuckDuckGo search engines are under fire for serving nonconsensu ...
- Phish Fry: Inboxes Worldwide Being Barraged With Suspicious Emails
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 21, 2023
There was a substantial increase in the number of suspicious emails betwe ...
- Hitching A Ride: Fraudsters Use Mobile Number Input Fields To Send SMS Messages
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Of all SMS traffic, 1.1% now falls into the category of S ...
- Bad AI: Human Writers Beat New Tech In IBM Phishing Test
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Humans beat AI in an email creative test. But don't start celebrati ...
- FTC's 'Dark Patterns' Charges Are Vague, Implicate All Marketing, Amazon Argues
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 20, 2023
Amazon is urging a federal judge to throw out the Federal Tra ...
- Appeals Court Weighs Meta's Liability For Scam Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 18, 2023
"This is exactly the type of case that Section 230 was mea ...
- FTC Links Social Media Scams To Targeted Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Sunday, October 8, 2023
Many reported social-media scams begin with an ad on Facebook or Instagra ...
- Robert Downey Jr. Combats Online Crime In 'What Are The Odds?'
MAD, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, October 4, 2023
There is a 1 in 4 chance of Americans falling victim ...
- Bottom Dwelling Bots: They're Under Water And Hard To Detect
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 2, 2023
Over 70% of phishing attacks cannot be seen in advance, Egress repo ...
- Enterprise Entropy: Large Firms Face Metric And Fraud Display Ad Challenges
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Advertisers list click-through rates as their chief metric, OMI and Ascend2 rep ...
- 22% Of All Digital Ad Spend, 30% Of Mobile Lost To Ad Fraud In 2023, Claims New Report
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Ad fraud will leap 105%, from $84 billion in 2023 to $1 ...
- Click Fraud Encroached On Programmatic Advertising In Q2: Study
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 30, 2023
A fifth of all invalid clicks on mobile apps are now generat ...
- Trend Micro Says It Helped Interpol Take Down Phishing Operation
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 14, 2023
16shop allegedly supported phishing attacks on over 70,000 victims in 43 countr ...
- New Tool Determines Whether Email Attacks Were Generated By AI
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Abnormal Security offers a product for thwarting business email compromise attacks. ...