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Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL

An anonymous reader quotes an article on Help Net Security: In the last couple of days, visitors of a number of highly popular media outlets including the NY Times, the BBC, and Newsweek have been targeted with malicious adverts that attempted to install malware (mostly ransomware, but also various Trojans) on their systems. The websites themselves weren't compromised as the problem was with the ad networks these sites use -- Google, AppNexus, AOL, Rubicon. The ad networks were tricked into serving malicious ads to the visitors.

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  1. Re:GAY NIGGERS OF AMERICA - We wan to fuck ASS! by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hope you die horribly.

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    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  2. Re:BBC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A Douchebook user complaining about someone making a pointless post? Oh the ironing.

    Shouldn't you be getting back to you all your "friends" so you can tell them about how you just finished taking a dump and are now heading out to a gay bar?