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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.
Has anyone found a Forbes Link on this? I can't search there because I won't turn off my ad-blocker and Forbes won't let me past their page requesting that I turn off the blocker. It just goes through an endless loop.