25th May, 2018 By Kacy Zurkus
Once believed to be bereft of the security risks inherent in plugins like Adobe Flash, HTML5 attributes enable malware attacks, and The Media Trust is reporting that it has discovered numerous malware incidents in the hypertext markup language.
In a blog posted today, The Media Trust wrote, “The malware, which has produced at least 21 separate incidents affecting dozens of globally recognized digital media publishers and at least 15 ad networks, uses JavaScript commands in order to hide within HTML5 creative and avoid detection. The scale of the infection marks a turning point for HTML5’s presumed security and demonstrates the advances malware developers have made in exploiting the open standards’ basic functionality to launch their attack.”
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