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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 myowntrueself · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hope you die horribly.

    Hey don't bully 12 year olds online!

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    In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.