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Cyber criminals attacks on rise in ad networks
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 22:26 IST
Bangalore: Cyber criminals get malicious hooks into multiple ad networks, including Google's, putting its visitors in peril. Security firm Armorize, said that the visitors to the multitude of sites using Google's DoubleClick, and likely other advertising networks, have found themselves the target of online attackers in early December after cyber criminals managed to fool a number of advertising networks into pushing ads that linked to a malicious site.
Even the security firm MessageLabs, which is part of Symantec, said that malicious software being served from legitimate sources has become a major problem. In 2010, nearly 90 percent of Web-based attacks started from a legitimate site.
The attackers managed to convince DoubleClick that ads from the website Adshufffle were legitimate. The appearance of attacks on non-DoubleClick-served sites suggests that other advertising networks were fooled by the attackers as well.
