More malicious ads
As noted several days ago, many normally trustworthy sites are being infected with ads that plant malware on unsuspecting viewers. Yet another round of attacks is reported at Computerworld:
Criminals flooded several online ad networks with malicious advertisements over the weekend, causing popular Web sites such as the Drudge Report, Horoscope.com and Lyrics.com to inadvertently attack their readers, a security company said Wednesday.
The trouble started on Saturday, when the criminals somehow placed the malicious ads on networks managed by Google’s DoubleClick, as well as two others: YieldManager and ValueClick’s Fastclick network, according to Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher with ScanSafe.
Apparently these attacks targeted out-of-date versions of the Adobe PDF reader.
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