General Discussion

['Malvertizement' epidemic]

FYI...

'Malvertizement' epidemic...
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/malvertizing_epidemic/
18 August 2008 - "... Newsweek joins a growing list of name-brand websites accused of exposing its readers to dangerous ads. Last week, we reported on a new breed of ad that used malicious Adobe Flash code to hijack the clipboard of users' PCs. MSNBC.com, Digg.com and other websites were said to be running the abusive ads... "It worries me that I am seeing complaints about malvertizing-like symptoms all over the net implicating - not only Newsweek, but at other big name sites like MSNBC, Facebook, lime.com, Hotmail, MySpace and Yahoo," Sandi Hardmeier, of the Spyware Sucks blog wrote here*. Hardmeier said the ads are extremely hard to spot because they can sit dormant for days before the attacks begin..."
* http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/17/1644872.aspx
August 16, 2008

(Screenshots at Sandi's URL above.)