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An ongoing malvertising campaign that began in August by targeting Yahoo.com, MSN.com and other websites visited by millions of people has expanded to hit smut sites as well. Many porn websites have been fingered with tainted advertisements via an ad network called TrafficHaus, a big player in supplying ads to adult networks …

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  1. Steven Raith

    That's why I browse all my porn on Linux

    Er, I mean, I find that offensive!

    Steven "Hairy palms and thick glasses" R

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  2. Mark 85

    Occasionally, I think about turning off Adblock to support various sites.. and then we hear of these attack vectors again and often hitting legitimate sites. My mind quickly changes...

    El Reg... can we get a donate button for those of us running Adblocker? I worry that it's possible you could get a malvertiser.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      As an Adblock user I regularly donate to sites I find of value where the option is available.

      El Reg would definitely get some of my money.

      It's a shame that the advertising model of supporting websites is so broken as it could work well.

      But it is broken and I don't see a fix coming soon.

      Gimme an option to lighten my wallet please...

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    2. Thought About IT
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      I thought sites could pay Adblock to allow advertisements through. That's why I use uBlock Origin.

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  3. Triboolean

    Good idea

    Yes, do put up a donate button.

    And especially before some malware ad includes a 'Donate' button.

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  4. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Could you post a list of sites that were compromised. Er, just so I can check that they're OK now (obviously).

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  5. channel extended

    Some people.

    People actually look at the ads on those sites?

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Does this make my Java sticky?

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  7. adnim
    Devil

    "...I never look at those things"

    Me neither *cough* Usenet *cough*

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  8. chivo243 Silver badge
    Trollface

    I wouldn’t know, I never look at those things

    With Internet Exploder, that's better now...

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  9. Richard Wharram

    People still use IE?

    Mind boggled.

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  10. Lyndon Hills 1

    xHamsters

    Have to say I'm intrigued. Not enough to visit, but why is that a good name for a porn site?

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  11. x 7

    yesterday xHamster had a popup which locked tbe browser until you paid a one bitcoin fine.......usual cleaning techniques removed it quickly enough

    Very amateurish attack - just a plain badly written text box (no graphics) which stated it only affected Google Chrome

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  12. Henry Wertz 1 Gold badge

    IE? For porn? What are you stupid?!?!?

    Seriously, porn sites (along with warez sites, and some streaming video sites) have the seediest advertising available. I would just assume if you went there with Windows + IE you'd be pwned, multiple times per page.

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  13. AlexLewter

    How the heck did they managed to slip this on xHamster? They along with Pornhub and Fapshows.com were the most secure site online. So they found a way to hack these too. This doesn't sound right.

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