Miragec/Getty Images reader comments 16 with Google has been caught hosting a malicious ad so convincing that there’s a decent chance it has managed to trick some of the more security-savvy users who encountered it. Enlarge / Screenshot of the malicious ad hosted on Google. Malwarebytes Looking at the ad, which masquerades as a pitch… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 84 with 0 posters participating Share this story Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom collection of queries. “Threat researchers are used to seeing a moderate flow of malvertising… Read More »
reader comments 81 with 40 posters participating Share this story Hackers have compromised more than 120 ad servers over the past year in an ongoing campaign that displays malicious advertisements on tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of devices as they visit sites that, by all outward appearances, are benign. Malvertising is the… Read More »