Added by
David Coleman
on
02 March 2011
You’ll notice that there are adverts on almost every website these days. Anybody with a website that attracts enough viewers can profit from displaying them.
The BBC has reported an interesting story showing how websites using a particular advertising system were hijacked by malicious code to trick people into thinking they had a virus on their computer. The victims were shown a fake antivirus program and asked for money in order to remove the non-existent viruses.
While this isn’t the first time anything like this had happened, it’s rare that such a high profile website, such as the London Stock Exchange website, has been a victim of such an advert-based attack.