A popular online virus is also on its way, which is Malvertising; in the month of October, if you have visited the popular site Daily Mail then might be internally your computer is on surveillance by hackers; in the month of October, the site unknowingly accepted a malicious advertising space from other advertiser, hackers upload malicious advertisements designed to hack visitor’s computer without a single click on the advertisements. The site will load perfectly neither your antivirus nor you can presume about the site performance any doubt having malware enabled site. However, the hackers buy ad space on a legitimate websites basically popular websites such as Daily Mail, the advertisements clandestinely and suspiciously install the program when you have been redirected to the powerful exploit Kits. The tool is designed to install the Kits into your computer without the user’s prior knowledge.
Aware: Malvertising Hack And Infects Computer Without Clicks
Perhaps now Daily Mail have known to the fact, discontinued with the advertiser, but still many people who browsed Daily Mail at the middle of October have been infected, This technique of effecting or hacking into others computer made aware to the site owners that not to accept other advertising rather than any popular advertising company such as Adsense. In today’s rolling out most authentically in the market that Malvertising becoming popular in trade of other computers secret. cybercriminals hold other popular websites and add up to the incomplete space of the site to load advertisement, the only motto is to infect others computers as much as possible. In the year 2009, Malvertising effect showed New York Times when some of the users met with unusual pop-up presuming as an anti-virus scanner but that was the malware trying to manipulate its users and infect visitors computer. Same method also occurred with some other popular sites also in August 2015 – Huffington Post was also serving up this malicious advertising which has 100 million monthly unique visitors perhaps this is not the first time HuffPo became victim of such malware advertising similar occurrence occurred in December 2014 which continued to January and again in August 2015, soon in September other popular porn sites got involvement in serving those malicious ads. Yahoo! and DrudgeReport also become a victim this year and in September at the time of Porn sites YouPorn and Pornhub effected simultaneously Forbes also become a victim of the case.
How Really Can You Stop This Malvertising?
Most importantly you will never be warned by any site that they are serving Malvertising, it’s can only be managed and controlled by site developer or owner and advertising publisher networks, to solve the problem they need to stop sponsoring this Malvertising activity. Other technological researchers have invested many amounts on research of Malvertisement they are testing and developing tools that can detect bad sectors of ad units, tools that can also detect Malvertisement but still on experiments because of different types of infringement the Malware using are of worried, Google in the year 2014 have disabled more than 500 million bad ads, also banned around 214,000 malware advertisers in 2014 itself.
