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Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation

by Confiant blog.confiant.com published 2018-01-23

The Zirconium group successfully created and operated 28 fake ad agencies to distribute malvertising campaigns through 2017, buying an estimate of 1 billion ad views throughout the year, and reaching

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