Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC
The malware-spiked ads have been spotted on various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The Economist to baseball's MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal. Hackers are using deceptive practices and tricky Flash programming to get their ads onto legitimate sites by way of DoubleClick's DART program. Web publishers use the DoubleClick-hosted platform to manage advertising inventory.
If you've seen any of the ads, you may have experienced something like this: You're on a legitimate site. Your browser window closes down. A new...
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