Feeling calm after a nice relaxing weekend? Let’s take care of that with a reminder of all the bad guys trying to steal your data. We’ll start with news that Awake Security identified 111 malicious Chrome extensions, including 79 that had been downloaded from the Chrome Web Store more than 33 million times. It was a very sophisticated attack.

The IAB also asked marketers about their budgets. They found total ad spend in the second half of 2020 is expected to drop by 20% even though digital ad spending will rise by 13%. Connected TV, digital video, and social media are expected to grow the fastest.

Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.