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Malvertising Attack Hits Realtor.com Visitors

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Dissent

Jerome Segura reports:

As the debate about online ads is raging thanks to Apple’s introduction of ad blockers in its App Store, malvertising keeps on striking high profile sites.

The latest victim is popular real estate website realtor.com, ranked third in its category with an estimated 28 million monthly visits according to SimilarWeb.

People browsing the site in the last few days may have been exposed to this malvertising campaign and consequently infected if their computers were not patched or did not have adequate security software. Like all other malvertising attacks, this one did not require to click on the bogus ad to get infected.

Read more on Malwarebytes.

Thanks to Justin Shafer for this link.

Category: Business SectorMalwareU.S.

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