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I don't know why you're implying malvertising only hits random jackasses. Google has been hit several times by exploit kit-based attacks over the last few weeks
by jdangu 11y ago
I don't know why you're implying malvertising only hits random jackasses. Google has been hit several times by exploit kit-based attacks over the last few weeks.
- wlesieutre 11y agoI was throwing Google in the jackasses pile, in the context of building their whole business around an advertising model that has their potentially insecure code/assets inserted into the vast majority of all websites. Maybe they're not random jackasses though. But seriously, the whole infrastructure of our online ad system just feels like a terrible idea to me. Advertisers want their analytics data from having all the requests hit their servers though, so it's not going anywhere unless Patreon and similar catch on in a big way. Has Google actually served exploits, or is it just their selling ads for fake downloads of Firefox, VLC, etc with malware in the installers?
- tracker1 11y agoGoogle Adsense/Adwords (I always mix up the two, really host/advertiser portals to the same service) isn't the same as DFP (formerly doubleclick) which does open things up to affiliate networks and isn't as tightly controlled.
- ceph_ 11y agoGoogle ads linked to site that contained a malware laden download of google ads directly served an exploit? The parent is talking about the latter, which I have not heard of happening to Google. Do you have a link about that? I do remember hearing about the ad for a third party Firefox download bundled with a malware toolbar. Which, while bad, is quite different.