Brave warns US Senate & Congress: foreign state actors can use targeted ads

[sman]

Brave warns US Senate & Congress: foreign state actors can use targeted ads to run code on US government computers, exploiting conventional browsers

"https://brave.com/malvertising-homeland-security/"

Brave has written to the US Senate and Congress Homeland Security Committees about a serious national security vulnerability.

In a letter sent to the US Senate and Congress Homeland Security Committees today, Brave warns that conventional web browsers allow foreign state actors to execute code on US government computers by using targeted online ads.

US federal agency and employee computers and devices are vulnerable to cyberattack by foreign state actors and criminals using “malvertising”. As the US National Security Agency has reported, “advertising has been a known malware distribution vector for over a decade”.

Brave provides the Committees with a comparative table of the security protections of web browsers, and urges them to ensure that every federal employee is provided with a web browser that blocks malvertising by default.

Today, Brave launches the next-generation Brave 1.0 on all platforms.

[exile360]

It sounds like they could use a good ad blocker, and likely a solid malicious site blocking extension like Malwarebytes Browser Guard .

[sman]

@exile360Good suggestion. maybe MBAM can write to the Senate/very senator  as brave has done.

Edited December 7, 2019 by sman