Google's Doubleclick Ad Servers Exposed Millions of Computers To Malware

Posted by timothy on Friday September 19, 2014 @10:59AM from the but-zedo-is-awesome dept.

wabrandsma (2551008) writes with this excerpt from The Verge: Last night, researchers at Malwarebytes noticed strange behavior on sites like Last.fm, The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post. Ads on the sites were being unusually aggressive, setting off anti-virus warnings and raising flags in a number of Malwarebytes systems. After some digging, researcher Jerome Segura realized the problem was coming from Google's DoubleClick ad servers and the popular Zedo ad agency. Together, they were serving up malicious ads designed to spread the recently identified Zemot malware. A Google representative has confirmed the breach, saying "our team is aware of this and has taken steps to shut this down."

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Re:And they wonder why I block ads... by amiga3D · 2014-09-19 11:06 · Score: 5, Funny

I always though doubleclick was a malware site. You mean it's not? Or it wasn't but now it is?
Don't Be Evil by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-19 11:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Stupidity is sufficient.
Re:Google = Direct arm of the CIA/NSA by BenSchuarmer · 2014-09-19 11:25 · Score: 3, Funny

You're wrong!
The CIA and NSA are direct arms of Google.
Re:And they wonder why I block ads... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-19 11:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Careful, otherwise you will end up summoning him
Re:And there's the reason why... by CaptainDork · 2014-09-19 12:45 · Score: 1, Funny

You could just unplug the modem ...

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