Google AdWords Campaigns Hijacked by Malvertisers threatpost/google-adwords-campaigns-hijacked-by-malvertisers/110457 A malvertising scheme has hijacked at least two distinct Google AdWords advertising campaigns, redirecting users who had browsed to the sites hosting the poisoned ads without those visitors even clicking on them. Some of the sites in question service more than a million monthly users. Last week, website security firm Sucuri noticed a substantial uptick in requests to scan sites for malware. Oddly enough, the malicious redirects did not discriminate among platforms nor browsers, but some visitors were not redirected while others complained that impacted sites became barely usable. The reason for that has to do with the way online advertising firms use mined data to target ads toward supposedly relevant customers. In extreme cases, advertisers deploy real-time ad-bidding, in which groups compete for seconds or minutes ad space on particular sites at specific times.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:35:13 +0000
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