The Downside of Encrypting Everything: Virus-Filled Ads Are Harder to Track

During the last year, online crooks have realized that buying ads and lacing them with malicious code is an easy and cheap way of infecting victims with malware and get some money out of it.

As a result, “malvertising” in 2015 has almost tripled from the year prior, even if security firms have focused more on this threat, tracking down and reporting several cases of malvertising to the advertisers and publishers.

Now, the fight against malvertising is about to get tougher for internet defenders as criminal hackers have found an unlikely ally: web encryption.