The number of ad-threat JavaScript attacks in the US diminished year-over-year, but what attacks there were increased in sophistication. Security firm DEVCON has issued its 2019 Holiday Threat Report which looks at the online scene between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. The report says that, a dramatic decline in the volume of many simplistic ad hacks over the last year. Less advanced hackers are being shut out of the ad threat game, but the more advanced bad actors are not only becoming more stealthy in obfuscating these attacks, they have escalated the types of exploits, broadened the attack surface.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/abtv/happier-holidays-as-ad-threat-declines/a/d-id/756450