Malicious Google DoubleClick Advertisements Distributed Malware to Millions of Computers

[Petrovic]

Cyber criminals have exploited the power of two online advertising networks, Google's DoubleClickand popular Zedo advertising agency, to deliver malicious advertisements to millions of internet users that could install malware on a user's computer.

A recent report published by the researcher of the security vendor Malwarebytes suggests that the cyber criminals are exploiting a number of websites, including The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post and the Last.fm music streaming website, to serve malicious advertisements designed to spread the recently identified Zemot malware.

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[Kent]

Its safe to use Adblock extensions for all sites to prevent this;moreover use another browser than IE,Firefox is a great browser............

 

[joneman221]

what is google adclick?

 

[Razor555]

That's what happens when the software developers are more focused to spy on the users instead of actually making their software more secure for the users.