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A-Avoid Ads and Links

This brings us to the next letter of the SAFE acronym “A” which stands for Avoid Ads and Links. If you’ve spent any time online, you already know that ads are just about everywhere. But did you know that even ads on trusted websites, such as YouTube, can become compromised with infected links?

This attack is called malvertising, it involves malicious code that is injected into legitimate-looking ads that are placed on trustworthy websites.