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I just had this conversation with the director of IT yesterday. Given the rise of ransomware and malvertising, I think its absolutely time we consider ad blocke

I just had this conversation with the director of IT yesterday. Given the rise of ransomware and malvertising, I think its absolutely time we consider ad blockers as important as anti-virus software. I realize how damaging this can/will be for content publishers, but the ad networks have nobody else to blame but themselves for how chaotic and dangerous online ad markets can be.

snehesht 11y ago
that's true but the sad thing is, it's been the case for past few years and ad gateways did little to control the abuse, they thought money > safety, now they are paying the price.
nickcano 11y ago
At Bromium we do complete task isolation in uVMs and use monitoring to watch what happens inside. Most customer infections we see come from ads, and they're mostly cryptoransomware. It's absurd.