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Ad blockers circumvent Facebook’s unblockable ads

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Let the whack-a-mole game begin. A mere two days after Facebook blocked ad blocking software, the ad blockers have managed to block Facebook’s ad blocker-blocker. Thursday morning, Adblock Plus announced that a new filter for banning Facebook’s ads has been

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Malicious, malware-peddling ad campaigns are becoming trickier to detect

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Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher with Malwarebytes, was recently stumped by a cyberattack he was studying. It seemed to keep vanishing. Segura often studies malvertising, which involves seeding ad networks with harmful online advertisements that then appear on websites,

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