Internet advertising ‘carrying malware’
February 13th, 2008 by Thomas
An increased number of search results now carry “malicious content”, according to a Google security advisor. Neil Provos, writing in this blog said in the last 18 months Google has found more than three million unique URLs on more than 18,000 websites that were infected. Mr Provos has co-authored a study, which revealed this caused a problem for the companies ad revenue. “In our analysis, we found that on average two per cent of malicious websites were delivering malware via advertising,” he said. His research, All Your IFRAM Point To Us, explained that a web page is only as secure as its weakest component. “In particular, even if the webpage itself does not contain any exploits, insecure ad content poses a risk to advertising web sites,” it went on to reveal.
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