


From an enterprise point of view, malvertising presents end point risk to individuals and devices that browse the internet. The Department of Defense, in late 2021, confirmed to Congress that it deployed various technologies to protect against online-advertising related malware and data collection threats. The risk of malvertising is real and growing, notably so over the past decade as the ad industry has dramatically expanded the scope and scale of its real time bidding infrastructure. This is where Confiant comes into the picture, with their first-of-its-kind technology integrated deeply into the ad tech infrastructure and offering the ad industry proactive threat detection and individual event blocking in real time. According to Louis-David, “LD”, Mangin, Co-founder, and CEO, “Digital ads was an unmapped threat vector before Confiant largely because of the complexity mitigating the incredibly high ratio of noise to signal in the ad tech infrastructure. It speaks volumes that our detection signals have consistently had 100% turnover every 24 months since Confiant’s inception.”
Surmounting the technical challenges required four years of rigorous R&D, where Confiant worked to figure out the right methods to connect into the ad tech infrastructure without amplifying the feedback loop to the bad actors, who in this vector benefit from being considered clients until their maliciousness is unmasked. Today those integrations handle several hundred billion events daily, enabling them with uniquely accurate data, such that Confiant was able to map the threat vector and published in 2021 a Malvertising Attack Matrix at matrix.confiant.com. As LD confirms, “Integrations are one of our superpowers. We have now built more than 130 integrations into the ad infrastructure, creating not just visibility, but control. Our patent pending real time blocking technology was an industry first and the landshift moment when the malvertising protection went from whack-a-mole to cat and-mouse.”
Confiant is now entering Phase 2 of its vision, mining its unique attack data (a 2021 benchmark exercise against VirusTotal showed 96% uniqueness of malicious domains according to LD), expanded its visibility to broader web vectors, while layering on threat intelligence and ad industry empowered takedown actions. The goal is to bring this valuable data to companies whose networks and clients are affected.
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We have now built more than 130 integrations into the ad infrastructure, creating not just visibility, but control
Confiant’s unique capabilities and data has generated ample research and quite a few accolades in its journey. The company was the first to detect a new family of Mac malware last year (WizardUpdate), and has a mention in Google’s Security Hall of Fame because of the almost-dozen browser CVEs for being first-to-detect significant browser exploits over the past 3 years. Recent research tied to its expanded visibility includes publications on SeaFlower, a ad driven malware infected crypto wallet attack, as well as into crypto drainers executing templated fake mints targeting brands launching NFTs. Committed to protecting brands online and true to core cybersecurity principles, Confiant is honored to be an ally in the enterprise cybersecurity space. Speak with Confiant’s Enterprise Threat Intelligence Team at: enterprisesecurity@confiant.com
Company
Confiant
Headquarters
New York, NY
Management
Louis David Mangin, CEO & Co-Founder
and Jerome Dangu, Co-Founder & CTO
Description
Confiant is making the digital world safer for everyone by ridding the world of bad ads
