Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL

Posted by msmash on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @03:26AM from the news-outlets-offering-ransomware dept.

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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Re:BBC? by phishybongwaters · 2016-03-16 04:15 · Score: 0, Troll

So you felt the need to comment on the fact that you don't see any ads on that site. You are running a privacy plugin, blocks and script blockers. Of fucking course you won't see any fucking ads, you've blocked the mechanism that allows them. AND you posted as AC. This is only slightly less pointless than the homophobic racist rant way back there.