> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Monty Solomon <[email protected]> > Subject: Malvertisers use >120 hacked ad servers to target millions of Web > surfers > Date: April 19, 2021 at 16:20:16 EDT > > Malvertisers use >120 hacked ad servers to target millions of web surfers > > Tag Barnakle is using infected ad severs to go “straight for the jugular,” > firm says. > > 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 practice of delivering ads to people as they visit > trusted websites. The ads embed JavaScript that surreptitiously exploits > software flaws or tries to trick visitors into installing an unsafe app, > paying fraudulent computer support fees, or taking other harmful actions. > Typically, the scammers behind this Internet scourge pose as buyers and pay > ad-delivery networks to display the malicious ads on individual sites. > > ... > > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/malvertisers-use-120-hacked-ad-servers-to-target-millions-of-web-surfers/ > >
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