Gizmodo Fooled by a Virus Ad

Gizmodo, a popular US gadget, asked for apology to its reader after being fooled by malware pretending to be an advertisement. The said malware is running on the site in ad boxes on Suzuki ads.

According to Gizmodo, their ad sales team has been fooled through an elaborate scam. The said situation has been taken care of and has affected only a few people. Gizmodo has advised the readers to use an antivirus to make sure that their system is clean.

Recently, New York Times was victimized with a similar attack. A pop-up box appears and redirected to a site offering antivirus software, the site is the virus itself. It’s like having a Web browser hijacked because it’s pretending to be a site that runs a scan for viruses.

Dasient, a Web security firm, stated that there are more than 640,000 websites infected with malware. They have identified more than 52,000 malware infections over the web this year. The attackers are focusing more on legitimate websites using them to spread malware.

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