Malware distributors have managed to trick two large ad networks into delivering malvertizements that silently infected the visitors of large websites with fake scareware programs.The attacks started on December 3 and were picked up by a cloud-based malware scanning service called HackAlert and operated by Santa Clar... |
11 December 2010
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New Zealand's largest online auction site, Trade Me, has served malware to visitors for over 24 hours last week, after a malicious ad got into the system.According to Alexa, trademe.co.nz has a traffic rank of 1,470 globally and 4 in New Zealand. The site has over 2.3 million registered users and as much as 70,0... |
4 October 2010
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Security researchers advise users who visited The Pirate Bay recently to scan their computers, because new malicious ads were spotted on the popular website.Jerome Segura, a researcher with security vendor ParetoLogic, notes that while surfing thepiratebay.org yesterday, a Java icon appeared in his computer's ta... |
29 September 2010
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Unidentified attackers have managed to push a malicious advertisement onto the website of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the biggest newspaper in Minnesota. The startribune.com admins disabled all advertising on the site yesterday and told readers to perform free security scans.The attack began on Sunday, with readers... |
23 February 2010
10:23 GMT |
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The media and advertising team of the New York Times website is currently trying to track down and remove a malicious advertisement promoting scareware. Users are advised to ignore any alerts that warn them of being infected with malware and offering an antivirus solution.Users started reporting anomalies when visiti... |
14 September 2009
04:49 GMT |
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