tedster
msg:3989493 | 3:00 am on Sep 15, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the story. The link above goes to the NYT's Gadgetwise Blog. They now have some coverage on the main website, too: [nytimes.com...]
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carguy84
msg:3989497 | 3:10 am on Sep 15, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I never got a virus from a newspaper.
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piatkow
msg:3989542 | 6:07 am on Sep 15, 2009 (gmt 0) |
It certainly isn't unknown for rogue advertisers to swap ads once they are into a campaign, replacing the legitimate looking ads with ones that wouldn't have been accepted but never something on this scale.
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Bentler
msg:3989839 | 6:55 pm on Sep 15, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I've seen this on a few major sites that display advertising, including a few different newspapers and a commonly used language reference. The presentation of these error messages is becoming more believable-- they seem to sniff out your OS to match your system dialogue box style.
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old_expat
msg:3990099 | 4:18 am on Sep 16, 2009 (gmt 0) |
| I never got a virus from a newspaper. |
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I wouldn't recommend picking up a discarded NY Times on a subway with the swine flue going around. ;)
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Zamboni
msg:3990326 | 3:08 pm on Sep 16, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Experience would indicate the next step for the "rogue advertisers" will be phishing for account information from legitimate advertisers (for every online advertising media) and then replacing their ads with scumware. That is if this wasn't the way this was actually done in the first place.
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potentialgeek
msg:3991370 | 5:46 am on Sep 18, 2009 (gmt 0) |
> According to the article, the advertiser posted seemingly legitimate ads for a week prior to the swap, presuming (correctly I might add) that no one would be around over the weekend to stop the malicious ads. Anyone else notice the extra amount of bad ads over weekends on various sites? p/g (I can see geeks with spy cams watching parking lots to see when the bosses have left the building. :/)
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