Malvertising campaign hits 10 MEELLION users in 10 days Cyphort researcher Nick Bilogorskiy says 10 million users may have been infected in as many as 10 days, thanks to a deadly malvertising and exploit kit campaign. The cybercrime investigator says the popular Angler exploit kit is driving the campaign targeting users across Asia, the US, and parts of Europe. It is the latest …
Adblock, noscript/ublock, ghostery, no flash etc all spring to mind.
But even then it can be tricky to get into a site for full functionality with all of the above - not so much an issue if it's for personal use but even some corporate sites become largely none functioning sometimes and unfortunately there's no useful (read supported by the client/site) alternative.
If even some sites advert streams are malware compromised, then why should anyone trust any advert streams on any site, including a sites own content?
Even own site domain advert pages pages may just be replicate external content of dubious security, so it can be smart to block this too!
I even block some other 'normal' content which I regard as visually offensive or distracting clutter.
I've even seen active internet content referencing by HTTPS corporate intranet site pages, including metrics i.e. so cross-site risk just waiting to happen; so shame on these insecure web designers!
AVForums has started to block users who have Adblocking enabled from posting to the classified sections as they need the revenue to run the sites, and I sort of agree with that, but given the malware I wonder how long before a lot of companies (and possibly ISP's) start block adverts at the firewall level.
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