Yahoo buys company that spreading malware via ads blocker

Yahoo has ClarityRay bought. That made the Isra lwa arabs for illicit arms company is well known on his site, but it showed nothing about any terms and conditions of the deal. ClarityRay offers technology to the spread of malware through ads.

ClarityRay began as a company that publishers with services helped to adblockers to fight. The company was of the opinion that adblockers are they a lot of money can costs, because publishers are no ads to show to be a part of their visitors.

Meanwhile the vision of ClarityRay has changed and it is mainly concerned with fraud detection in advertising and the securing thereof. Particularly the latter has lately become a severe problem, because rise malware writers use advertising to rogue software by means of great sites to to distribute. Nota bene Yahoo spread at the beginning of this year, that way the malware in Europe, probably for bitcoin mining.

A spokesperson from Yahoo let TechCrunch know that the technology of ClarityRay will be used to secure advertising, to infections as earlier this year. “The provision of advertisements is an essential part of our core business and we are committed to this on a proper way to do it.”

Yahoo is already quite some time on subsequently purchased. Recently bought, among other things, advertising, Flurry and a tool for the graphical display of data from social media. ClarityRay let you know with the acquisition by Yahoo of its technology to continue to want to expand.

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