Dailymotion hit by malvertising attack as perpetrators ‘up their game' Malicious adverts spreading malware managed to make their way onto popular French video streaming site Dailymotion. The infection involved a rogue ad and JavaScript that ultimately directs surfers to sites harbouring the Angler Exploit Kit (EK). The practical upshot was that Windows users running out-of-date software, such as …
"Nonetheless, the incident serves to illustrate the ongoing problems posed by the abuse of legitimate ad networks by cybercriminals."
I am a bit uncomfortable with the illegitimate use of the word "legitimate " when referring to those bandwidth stealing, backdoor enabling, data stetaling advertising bastards.
Bastards can never be legitimate.
Sadly another day, another malvertising attack .. simply one more reason to use AdBlock and NoScript in Firefox as the only sensible way to browse web sites these days.
And to those sites who demand I disable my blocker to use them .. I don't need you so I'll pass on the offer, thanks, until you stop using ad networks that don't protect me.
The one time when a rouge ad would have been more appropriate and somebody has to spell it correctly :(
Started to read your comment.
Prepared to write a snarky response berating yet another person for not knowing how to spell "rogue".
Finished reading your comment.
Well played, sir.
But honestly, the quick and simple way to fix this is to ban JS, Flash and HTML5 from all adverts. What does an advert need to do, apart from display an image?
"EAT FILBOID STUDGE. IT'S NECESSARY FOR YOU."
Of course, that wouldn't suit the advertisers, so it'll never happen.
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