Internet users were prompted by security alerts when browsing popular websites this weekend because of a malvertizing campaign that managed to push exploits onto their pages.
It's not yet clear where the attacks originated, but many of the reports seem to focus on a domain called stripli.com from where the malicious advertisements were loaded.
This domain is currently blacklisted by Google's Safe Browsing service, which means that websites trying to load content from it could end up being blocked in Chrome and Firefox.
Just a few hours ago www.londonstockexchange.com was in this situation and attempting to visit it from Google Search and these two browsers resulted in a Safe Browsing error.
The diagnostic page for stripli.com still states that "this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 7 domain(s), including reviewcentre.com/, londonstockexchange.com/, viamichelin.com/."
But, according to reports on Yahoo! Answers, the impact was much more extensive, with IMDb.com and eBay.com being among the affected domain names.
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It's not yet clear where the attacks originated, but many of the reports seem to focus on a domain called stripli.com from where the malicious advertisements were loaded.
This domain is currently blacklisted by Google's Safe Browsing service, which means that websites trying to load content from it could end up being blocked in Chrome and Firefox.
Just a few hours ago www.londonstockexchange.com was in this situation and attempting to visit it from Google Search and these two browsers resulted in a Safe Browsing error.
The diagnostic page for stripli.com still states that "this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 7 domain(s), including reviewcentre.com/, londonstockexchange.com/, viamichelin.com/."
But, according to reports on Yahoo! Answers, the impact was much more extensive, with IMDb.com and eBay.com being among the affected domain names.
More details - link
