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Polyfill.io JavaScript supply chain attack impacts over 100K sites

Over 100,000 sites have been impacted in a supply chain attack by the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and the script was modified to redirect users to malicious and scam sites.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 25, 2024
- 02:10 PM
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BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to 800,000 in health data sharing settlement

BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million in a settlement agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations of misusing and sharing consumer health data for advertising purposes.
- Bill Toulas
- May 07, 2024
- 12:44 PM
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FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the users' web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 22, 2024
- 11:48 AM
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FTC orders Intuit to stop pushing "free" software that isn't really free

Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and services as "free" unless they're actually free for all consumers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 22, 2024
- 04:37 PM
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Meta faces EU ban on Facebook, Instagram targeted advertising

The European Data Protection Board has extended the temporary ban on targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram, imposed by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in July.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 01, 2023
- 07:45 PM
- 0
Google rolls out Privacy Sandbox to use Chrome browsing history for ads

Google has started to roll out its new interest-based advertising platform called the Privacy Sandbox, shifting the tracking of user's interests from third-party cookies to the Chrome browser.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 09, 2023
- 02:59 PM
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Facebook behavioral ads banned by Norwegian privacy watchdog

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA), the country's data privacy watchdog, has banned behavioral advertising on Meta's Facebook and Instagram social networks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 19, 2023
- 08:12 AM
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FTC to ban BetterHelp from sharing mental health data with advertisers

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed to ban the online counseling service BetterHelp from sharing its customers' sensitive mental health data with advertising networks and marketers.
- Bill Toulas
- March 05, 2023
- 10:12 AM
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U.S. sues Google for abusing dominance over online ad market

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a federal lawsuit today against Google for abusing its dominant position in the online advertising market.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 24, 2023
- 02:03 PM
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France fines Apple for targeted App Store ads without consent

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Apple €8,000,000 ($8.5M) for collecting user data for targeted advertising on the App Store without requesting or securing the user's consent.
- Bill Toulas
- January 05, 2023
- 01:52 PM
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FBI warns of search engine ads pushing malware, phishing

The FBI warns that threat actors are using search engine advertisements to promote websites distributing ransomware or stealing login credentials for financial institutions and crypto exchanges.
- Bill Toulas
- December 21, 2022
- 11:12 AM
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Brave starts showing "privacy-preserving" ads in search results

Brave Software announced that, as part of a global beta program, it is now displaying "privacy-preserving ads" in-between results shown by its web search engine to select users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 01, 2022
- 01:24 PM
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Google to roll out Privacy Sandbox on Android 13 starting early 2023

Google announced today that they will begin rolling out the Privacy Sandbox system on a limited number of Android 13 devices starting in early 2023.
- Bill Toulas
- November 15, 2022
- 01:00 PM
- 0
Microsoft is showing ads in the Windows 11 sign-out menu

Microsoft is now promoting some of its products in the sign-out flyout menu that shows up when clicking the user icon in the Windows 11 start menu.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 07, 2022
- 04:55 PM
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Microsoft Edge’s News Feed ads abused for tech support scams

An ongoing malvertising campaign is injecting ads in the Microsoft Edge News Feed to redirect potential victims to websites pushing tech support scams.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 15, 2022
- 02:08 PM
- 1
Over 80% of the top websites leak user searches to advertisers

Security researchers at Norton Labs have found that roughly eight out of ten websites featuring a search bar will leak their visitor's search terms to online advertisers like Google.
- Bill Toulas
- September 08, 2022
- 10:27 AM
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Microsoft is showing ads for Microsoft 365 in Office 2021

Microsoft is showing ads for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions to its Office 2021 customers, offering them discounts of over $28 to get a 3-month Family plan subscription.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 12, 2022
- 06:44 PM
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Massive Facebook Messenger phishing operation generates millions

Researchers have uncovered a large-scale phishing operation that abused Facebook and Messenger to lure millions of users to phishing pages, tricking them into entering their account credentials and seeing advertisements.
- Bill Toulas
- June 08, 2022
- 02:54 PM
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Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer

Microsoft has begun testing promotions for some of its other products in the File Explorer app on devices running its latest Windows 11 Insider build.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 14, 2022
- 01:56 PM
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Telegram launches advertising program for public channels

Telegram has launched a new advertising program dubbed Ad Platform and offering the opportunity to display sponsored messages on the instant-messaging platform.
- Bill Toulas
- October 27, 2021
- 09:56 AM
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