Malvertising Found on Dating Site Match[dot]com

  • 3 September 2015
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September 3, 2015 | BY Jérôme Segura
 
                                            


 
In an attack similar to the one that happened last month on PlentyOfFish, the UK version of online dating site Match.com was caught serving malvertising.
 
Both companies are actually related since the Match Group bought out POF.com last summer. This latest malvertising incident is the work of the same gang using Google shortened URLs leading to the Angler exploit kit.
 
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Malvertising seems to be the latest scourge of the web that must be catching out a lot of "happy clickers".
 
The majority of internet users don't use ad-blockers or have suitable anti-exploit software in place. It's definitely a war zone out there!

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