Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts

tracking down threats and vulnerabilities,

and solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving

cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us. Our work in Malvertising goes back to the really the admin of Tallis.

That's Craig Williams. He's the head of Tallos Outreach at Cisco.

The research we're discussing today is titled Malvertizing, online

advertising's darker side.

Back when Talas's first form, there was really one malvertizing campaign and an exploit kid that ruled them all and that was the

angler exploit kit. We estimated it was making I think it was something like

60 million dollars a year you know we plotted out how we arrived at that number, and I think it was a real eye-opener to the security

community about how effective these campaigns were.

Now, you know, as a result of that campaign, campaign sorry that research and some other research

the industry started cracking down groups are put in jail and it kind of disappeared a little bit

for a while and so the reason we wanted to write this up is because we wanted to talk

about what they're doing with the infrastructure, what we're still seeing from

an advertising standpoint, and some of the newer things that they're doing that

I think users need to be aware of.

What I love about this research that you've published is how there's something in here for everybody.

No matter what level you consider yourself to be at when it comes to understanding this stuff,

this is a great place to start when it comes to understanding how the online advertising world

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