VB2017 paper: Exploring the virtual worlds of advergaming

At

VB2016

in Denver,

Malwarebytes

researchers Jérôme Segura and Chris Boyd presented a

paper

on malicious advertising, or malvertising. At the end of the paper, as they looked at the future of online ads, they discussed new trends in ‘advergaming’, or in-game ads.

This subject was the topic of a follow-up

paper

, presented by Chris at VB2017 in Madrid. In it, he looked at various aspects of advergaming, from unreadable EULAs to fake programs that promise to block ads.

advergaming-fig2.jpg

Today, we publish Chris’s VB2017 paper in both

HTML

and

PDF

format; we have also uploaded the video of his presentation to our

YouTube

channel (with apologies for the missing beginning).

The programme for

VB2018

, which will take place in Montreal, 3-5 October, will be announced later this week – and we are pleased to announce that

Malwarebytes

will be partnering the event’s evening networking reception on the 3 October!


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