Malvertising is the name given to advertisements that look legitimate but unknown to the user are infecting your computer and browser. Ads are commonly outsourced to third-party firms, these companies sell and resell advertising space and generally provide a tool for advertisers to upload their own ads. This is the most common weak point; cybercriminals purchase ad space and upload their malware through these portals.

We are all aware of looking for things that look or feel wrong.  The real danger here is that user judgment is not involved at all; you don’t have to click on something that looks suspicious to become infected, only go to a website that you regularly use and trust and you may become infected.

How then can I protect myself?

Endpoint Management The best protection is protection that occurs closet to where the infection may occur. We still must have firewalls and we still must protect our email with virus and malware scanners but in order to protect against web-borne viruses and malware we need strong end-point protection.

Your Calgary IT Source partners with Bitdefender to bring Gravity zone providing unparalleled machine learning combined with monitoring and threat detection techniques that detect and block traditional end-point threats as well as next-gen AV (eg. Malvertising) threats.

Barracuda Content Shield provides advanced DNS and URL filtering to prevent users from accessing malicious web content. Designed for cloud-connected services and remote users Barracuda’s Content Shield provides robust content filtering, file-based protection and granular policy enforcement to protect your users, your organization, and your brand.

Your Calgary IT Source partners with Barracuda to bring you, Content Shield, together with BitDefender providing the maximum protection available.