Peaches Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 </h1><h1>Drudge, other sites flooded with malicious ads By Robert McMillan September 23, 2009 IDG News Service - Criminals flooded several online ad networks with malicious advertisements over the weekend, causing popular Web sites such as the Drudge Report, Horoscope.com and Lyrics.com to inadvertently attack their readers, a security company said Wednesday. The trouble started on Saturday, when the criminals somehow placed the malicious ads on networks managed by Google's DoubleClick, as well as two others: YieldManager and ValueClick's Fastclick network, according to Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher with ScanSafe. The attack comes just a week after the New York Times Web site was tricked into displaying a deceptive 'scareware' advertisement for fake antivirus software from scammers pretending to be ad buyers with Vonage, an Internet telephony company. Instead of trying to trick Web surfers into buying bogus software, these ads attacked. Full story compouterworld - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/913...s?taxonomyId=85 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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