Last week we uncovered a large-scale malvertising attack involving Google’s DoubleClick and Zedo that affected many high-profile sites.
Unfortunately, another incident where DoubleClick is part of the advertising chain has happened again.
Upon our discovery we immediately notified Google so they could shut this down.
Although DoubleClick is not directly responsible, the publisher is trusting them to only allow ‘clean’ ads.
Many popular sites were caught in the cross-fire including examiner . com. The power of malvertising attacks is that they can be widespread in an instant by leveraging the advertising networks’ infrastructure.
Malicious ads are displayed to millions of visitors who do not actually need to click them to get infected.
Full story:
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2014/09/googles-doubleclick-ad-network-abused-once-again-in-malvertising-attacks/
