Two Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malware

Trailrunner7 writes "Two major online ad networks — DoubleClick and MSN — were serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week, experts say, after a group of attackers was able to trick the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating an online advertising provider. The scheme involved a group of attackers who registered a domain that was one letter away from that of ADShuffle.com, an online advertising technology firm. The attackers then used the fake domain — ADShufffle.com — to dupe the advertising networks into serving their malicious banner ads. The ads used various exploits to install malware on victims' PCs through drive-by downloads, according to information compiled by security vendor Armorize."

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[Karellen]

A transaction draws money from your account immediately, good luck trying to reverse that later, I mean it is YOUR money gone, not the bank's money.

Do you have trouble reading?

There is no money in the account, ever, except when I'm just about to buy something, and then only enough to pay for the thing I'm buying. I never have to worry about reversals, as no unauthorized payment can be taken to be reversed.

First of all you will have the bounce fee.

Yes, I am aware of that. I mentioned it. I am willing to accept that in return for no unauthorized payments being made. I mentioned that too.

You really are having trouble with this whole "reading" thing, aren't you. Heck, if you hadn't managed to grasp the concept that I'm using a debit card at all, I'd be forced to infer that you were completely illiterate.

there have been many instances where banks go ahead and honor the overdrawing

Good job I talked to my bank and got them to remove all overdraft facilities and to give me written confirmation of that. Sorry that I've not lived down to your expectation of how completely fucking dumb you assumed I was.