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Block malvertising with WMD

Attackers attempt to compromise your website through malvertising. It becomes very poplar by third-party ad networks to seed malware in legitimate website. What is malvertising? It distributes malware by using online advertising. When you click on an ad or access malicious website, hidden malware directs your system to criminal servers. Normally, legitimate websites with high traffic become a target and statistically major website has infected by malvertising. Malvertising uses ad network to spread malware to other websites. Attackers hide malware to ad networks and pay the network to distribute them like a real online advertising. When you click ad banner or visit malicious website, the ad script on the website would download an ad from ad network. After then your system is infected with malware and try to compromise your website. The problem of malvertising is vulnerable software on your system by just clicking a banner or link. Also, it is not easy to solve and its unsetting prevalence requires defense effort for a lot of stakeholders including website operations and ad networks etc. Websites are hacked everyday and if you are vulnerable, even a single click can infect your system. How to protect your website from malware? WMD can help you to protect your website from malvertising. WMD is web security service that periodically visits and diagnoses your website for malware detection. Based on AIONCLOUD’s technology, it analyzes not only malware but also malware origin expansion and spreading through static/dynamic analysis. Also, WMD allows you to take further action by malware alert and reporting. WMD performs multi-level inspection. WMD revisits websites and absolute confidence based on direct observation when suspicious event is founded. WMD provides enhanced inspection depth for multi-level URLs and identifies and inspects malware that have been encoded and obfuscated. As a malware awareness service, WMD allows you to understand your website’s threat and strengthen security posture against future breaches. WMD identifies and quantifies breach events and performs deep-dive analysis. Secure your website from malware with WMD!

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