Tag Archives: API

WTF is the Attribution Reporting API in Google’s Privacy Sandbox?

WTF is the Attribution Reporting API in Google’s Privacy Sandbox?

This article is a WTF explainer, in which we break down media and marketing’s most confusing terms. More from the series → The third-party cookie going away won’t only affect advertisers’ abilities to target ads but also their means of knowing which of those ads led to product sales or conversion events. To help fill that cookie-sized hole in the digital ad industry’s measurement system, Google has developed the Attribution Reporting API as part of its Privacy Sandbox set… Source link

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Last call for Google Ads API v13

Last call for Google Ads API v13

Google Ads API v13 will sunset on January 31, 2024. All API requests will start to fail for those still using v13 from February 1, 2024 onwards. Developers who have not migrated to the new version by February will experience a disruption in API access. Why we care. API updates directly impact ad campaign functionality. Once a version is sunset, associated requests fail, risking disruptions to campaign management… Source link

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Malware abusing API is standard token theft, not an API issue

Malware abusing API is standard token theft, not an API issue

Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies when previously stolen ones have expired. In late November 2023, BleepingComputer reported on two information-stealing malware operations named Lumma and Rhadamanthys, claiming they could restore expired Google authentication cookies stolen in attacks. These cookies could then be loaded into threat actors’ browsers to gain access to an infected user’s… Source link

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