Popular English-Language Israeli News Sites Hit by Malvertising Attack

  • 19 September 2014
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By Eduard Kovacs on September 19, 2014
 
Visitors of two well-known English-language news websites based in Israel could have had their computers infected with malware after cybercriminals managed to hijack the digital ads being served on the site.
Researchers at Malwarebytes noticed earlier this week that the websites of The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post had been serving malicious ads as part of a malvertising campaign that appears to involve several threat actors.
The malicious advertisements have been set up to redirect unsuspecting users to a page hosting the Nuclear Exploit Kit, which was recently spotted in an attack leveraging Facebookand the online magazine AskMen. Nuclear EK exploits Flash, Adobe Reader and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities in an effort to push malware onto victims' computers.
 
SecurityWeek/ full article here/ http://www.securityweek.com/popular-english-language-israeli-news-sites-hit-malvertising-attack

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