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Cybersecurity company Bitdefender has released a new report unmasking a ‘malvertising’ campaign targeting Australian Meta business accounts and personal accounts of primarily 45+ males.

Cybersecurity solutions provider Bitdefender Labs says it has been monitoring the growing trend among cybercriminals who actively exploit social media networks for malvertising, and the “end goal of these attacks” is to hijack accounts and “steal personal data” through malicious software.

A global-scale malvertising attack, the first ad-based cybercrime that targets home-network based IoT devices, has been uncovered by global cybersecurity company GeoEdge.

In Q4, 2016 the largest email phishing campaign was 6.7 times the largest in Q3 and fraudulent social media accounts increased by 100%. These are just two findings from Proofpoint’s 2016 year in review.

Links to malware inside online advertising bypassed the security systems of the advertising serving companies and distributed ransomware to unsuspecting ‘link clickers’.

It’s not just your browser than can deliver hacked ads, but dodgy ads displayed within Skype could have caused you big problems, too.

Artificial Intelligence, new encryption alternatives, malvertising, passwords and IoT devices dominate the evolution of online safety - and make up AVG’s online safety predictions.