Contrary to a recent report of the relative safety of porn sites, researchers have spotted dozens of malvertising attacks targeting hundreds of adult sites.

According to a Dec. 2 Malwarebytes blog post, the attacks targeted sites including drtuber.com, nuvid.com, eroprofile.com, iceporn.com and xbabe.com, each of which receive millions of visits per month, and are being distributed through the adult ad network AdXpansion.

The malvertising campaign uses a compromised Flash advertisement to trigger a hidden Flash exploit loaded from a seemingly innocent XML file. As soon as it is displayed on the page, no click required, the XML file will attempt to load an exploit.

There has been no word as to how the adult sites are responding to the threats.

Source: SCMagazine