Up to 12 million MySpace, Bebo, Photobucket and The Sun visitors? Now that’s viral.
Whoops! ScanSafe reported that between the 8th of August and through early September ad exchange Right Media served up somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 million infected ads carrying a Trojan-Downloader.VBS.Agent.
It turns out that seventy of Right Media’s ad servers were infected. Some of the web sites that were effected included MySpace, Bebo and Photobucket.
In a recent press release, Dan Nadir, vice president for product strategy at Scansafe said “this is another example of how legitimate ‘trusted’ Web sites can unknowingly host malware. Online ads have become a primary target for malware authors because they offer a stealthy way to distribute malware to a wide audience”.
Read the entire article on ClickZ.
Tags: Ad, Advertising, Bebo, MySpace, Photobucket, Security, Social Networking, The Sun, Trojan, Trojan Downloader.VBS.Agent, Viral Marketing, VirusNew around here?
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