Two Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malware

Trailrunner7 writes "Two major online ad networks — DoubleClick and MSN — were serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week, experts say, after a group of attackers was able to trick the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating an online advertising provider. The scheme involved a group of attackers who registered a domain that was one letter away from that of ADShuffle.com, an online advertising technology firm. The attackers then used the fake domain — ADShufffle.com — to dupe the advertising networks into serving their malicious banner ads. The ads used various exploits to install malware on victims' PCs through drive-by downloads, according to information compiled by security vendor Armorize."

MSN sucks! This would never happen to Google!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh wait... Google's doubleclick got tricked too.... okay, nevermind.

  -The Anonymous Google Fanboy

Re:is there anyone left NOT running adblock?

[Push Latency]

Don't forget the folks who believe it's morally wrong to block ads. I had a long conversation with a college professor of programming who believes that quite strongly.

Re:is there anyone left NOT running adblock?

[countertrolling]

There really should be a license requirement for using computers on the internet

No way! Next you'll be demanding sobriety checks. So let's just nip that dumb idea in the bud, shall we?

This drive by thingy everyone is talking about

[Ismellpoop]

well its bullshit every time an add tried to install something the package manager won't open them. Shit I've tried every distro out there and I still can't open them up. What am I doing wrong can someone please help me. I really want to see all these cool things the rest of the world is experiencing.