Criminals flooded several online ad networks with malicious advertisements over the weekend. The ads were placed on networks managed by Google’s DoubleClick, as well as two others. They would pop up a nearly invisible window in the victim’s browser that contained a maliciously encoded pdf document. The attack comes just a week after the New York Times Web site was tricked into displaying a deceptive’scareware’ advertisement for fake antivirus software from scammers pretending to be ad buyers with Vonage, an Internet telephony company.”]
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