Malvertising becoming a serious threat
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 06/07/2014 10:28 AM
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Cisco Systems has found that malicious advertisements on domains belonging to Disney, Facebook, The Guardian newspaper and others are leading people to malware that encrypts a computer’s files.
Levi Gundert, a former Secret Service agent and now a technical lead for threat research and analysis at Cisco, said in an interview: “It really is insidious.”
Known as “malvertising,” advertising networks have taken steps to try and detect malicious advertisements placed on their network.
“It goes to show that malvertising is a real problem,” Gundert said. “People expect when they go to a Tier 1 website that it is a trustworthy place to visit, but because there are so many third-party external links, that’s not really true.”
Cisco hasn’t yet been able to identify a group behind the attacks.
Levi Gundert, a former Secret Service agent and now a technical lead for threat research and analysis at Cisco, said in an interview: “It really is insidious.”
Known as “malvertising,” advertising networks have taken steps to try and detect malicious advertisements placed on their network.
“It goes to show that malvertising is a real problem,” Gundert said. “People expect when they go to a Tier 1 website that it is a trustworthy place to visit, but because there are so many third-party external links, that’s not really true.”
Cisco hasn’t yet been able to identify a group behind the attacks.
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