Google releases a teaser report of research being done on Ad Injectors

[Petrovic]

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http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/out-with-unwanted-ad-injectors.html

Google posted a security blog article today about Google ad injectors and how they are bad for advertisers, bad for publishers, and even worse for the users who are infected by them. As part of this report, Google disclosed that they have been conducting a study with researchers at University of California Berkeley and will be publishing a report on May 1st. As sample, they relased some information based on a sample of 100 million pageviews from users with Chrome, Internet Explorer, and FireFox:

• Ad injectors were detected on all operating systems (Mac and Windows), and web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE) that were included in our test.
• More than 5% of people visiting Google sites have at least one ad injector installed. Within that group, half have at least two injectors installed and nearly one-third have at least four installed.
• Thirty-four percent of Chrome extensions injecting ads were classified as outright malware.
• Researchers found 192 deceptive Chrome extensions that affected 14 million users; these have since been disabled. Google now incorporates the techniques researchers used to catch these extensions to scan all new and updated extensions.

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[Nico@FMA]

Google posted a security blog article today about Google ad injectors and how they are bad for advertisers, bad for publishers, and even worse for the users who are infected by them. As part of this report, Google disclosed that they have been conducting a study with researchers at University of California Berkeley and will be publishing a report on May 1st. As sample, they relased some information based on a sample of 100 million pageviews from users with Chrome, Internet Explorer, and FireFox:

• Ad injectors were detected on all operating systems (Mac and Windows), and web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE) that were included in our test.
• More than 5% of people visiting Google sites have at least one ad injector installed. Within that group, half have at least two injectors installed and nearly one-third have at least four installed.
• Thirty-four percent of Chrome extensions injecting ads were classified as outright malware.
• Researchers found 192 deceptive Chrome extensions that affected 14 million users; these have since been disabled. Google now incorporates the techniques researchers used to catch these extensions to scan all new and updated extensions.

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Great article, yet it shows again how much info Google gathers trough their Apps, Software and Online tools. Granted this kind of research is useful as there are to many BS ads on the net. It drives the average user insane, not to mentioned the forced ads.
So if parties like Google can make a fist against this then this would be great, on the other hand Google uses some pretty aggressive ad serving on their own products and start to be just as annoying as their rivals.
So how about this no more ads....

Who is with me lol ... Vote yes for president... whahaha.
Just kidding.