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Originally Posted by warescouse
I really liked this site's word possibly for the likes of Phorm and NebuAd.
Malvertising
Check it out. They say:-
"An Internet-based criminal method for the installation of unwanted or malicious software through the use of Internet advertising media networks and exchanges." |
Malvertising has been around since at least April last year - first in spam directing people to a Google/Yahoo PPC url that had been infected. Some ads, after infecting you, sent you on to the real site while others dumped you onto a site which had copied the original, hoping that you would place an order and confirm any PI that they had not been able to harvest off your computer.
One thing the article omitted was the number of tracking scripts which are also infected by malware - you will see many forums where sites have been blacklisted because of 3rd party scripts that they have hosted for years without any problems, yet they have suddenly been infected by malware.
What I found most interesting in the article was that these scripts hosted by sites have access to the DOM - that I did not know.
Below the article, there is a comment about Phorm which makes for some very interesting reading too, considering the date it was written. Perhaps it explains why the fora are no longer filled by PhormPRTeam.