"New Tool Skewers Socially Engineered Attack Ads"

Online ads are often leveraged in personal cyberattacks, which can lead to the download of unwanted software and other malicious files. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are fighting deceptive online ads with an innovative solution designed to combat the growing threat of online social engineering attacks by eliminating them at their source. Trident, developed by Ph.D. student Zheng Yang and his team of researchers, is an add-on compatible with Google Chrome and has been shown to block these ads by nearly 100 percent. Yang noted that the objective is to identify suspicious ads that often lead users to malicious websites or activate unwanted software downloads. This article continues to discuss the solution developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology to address the rising threat of online social engineering attacks.

Georgia Institute of Technology reports "New Tool Skewers Socially Engineered Attack Ads"