[Informatics] U4O2 - More on 'Malvertising'

[Mark]

Recently I pointed to a new genre of malware... malvertising.
It seems to be growing...

"Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a
Click

MALVERTISING IS WHEN hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as
the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site
visitor’s computers.

The news page looked perfectly innocent. Apart from the reams of celebrity
gossip stories and throw-away magazine layout, nothing about the the
website for UK news site The Daily Mail seemed particularly malicious. But,
if you visited the site in October, you might have fallen victim to a
sophisticated hacking campaign without even realizing it."

Read more
<http://www.wired.com/2015/12/hacker-lexicon-malvertising-the-hack-that-infects-computers-without-a-click/>

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/hacker-lexicon-malvertising-the-hack-that-infects-computers-without-a-click/


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Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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