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Current Filter: Security>>>>>News> Maladjusted to Malvertising Editorial Type: News Date: 11-2015 Views: 1702  Key Topics: Security Malicious Attacks Cybercriminals hack attack Key Companies: Sophos Key Products: SophosLabs Key Industries: |  | ||
| Malvertising - when malicious content attempts to infect a PC through one of the ads on a website - is becoming a growing threat, warns Paul Ducklin, senior security advisor at Sophos "This can happen on any blog or website, regardless of credibility, as it is almost as good for cybercriminals as hacking into the site itself, without having to break into the brand's web servers. Another reason cybercrooks absolutely love it is because ad servers often push out content to many different customer, or to numerous brands belonging to one company, so it's like hacking lots of websites at once." Compromised ad servers have had a global impact, with 15,000 different Sophos users from all over the world feeding back to SophosLabs that their browser had come across a malicious ad that was part of this particular criminal exercise. | |||
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