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Major Ad Servers Flooded With Malicious Ads

Criminals flooded several online ad networks with malicious advertisements over the weekend. The Drudge Report, Horoscope.com and Lyrics.com were inadvertently attacked their readers, a security company said Wednesday. The trouble started on Saturday, when the criminals somehow placed the malicious ads on networks managed by Google s DoubleClick, as well as two others: YieldManager and ValueClick s Fastclick network. Read the full story on CNN.com/IBM.com.

Source: https://threatpost.com/major-ad-servers-flooded-malicious-ads-092409/72275/

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