Weather Infected Ads On KickassTorrents

On the very popular torrent KickassTorrents again infected ads have appeared that tried to infect visitors with malware. The ads were spotted by the Safe Browsing service provided by Google, which then in users of Chrome and Firefox website blocked.

What kind of vulnerability, there was used to spread malware and to not know what is exactly the malware lets Google. Across TorrentFreak explains the team Kickass Torrents that the responsible advertiser has been removed. At the time of writing, the Web site, however, is still blocked. In July KickassTorrents was already by Google blocked. The torrent is according to Alexa on the 75th spot of most visited websites in the world.

Weather Infected Ads On Popular Websites

On several popular websites that get together at least 50 million visitors per month are infected ads have appeared that attempt to install malware. These include CNN to Indonesia, the official site of the Prague airport, RTL Television Croatia and the game Bejeweled Blitz.

The ads will be distributed through the OpenX advertising platform-that in the past has been used frequently for "malvertising". According to Websense , found that the ads make many websites use OpenX installations and are often shared between multiple websites, or is it an advertiser that the technology used on multiple websites.

The infected ads, going around for weeks, using a recently patched vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. In case users have not installed the update, and the attack is successful, a Trojan horse installed on the computer there. Anti-virus company BitDefender advises Internet users therefore to install a AdBlocker to block these types of infected ads.