Sites like MySpace and Photobucket are seeing a significant amount of malicious banner ads planted on their pages. Other heavily volume sites are noticing similar occurrences of difficult to detect javascript based trojan downloaders.

These types of threats are very dangerous as you do not have to click on the ad to be infected. These types of ads are not automatically filtered by Right Media’s ad servers as the trojan writer add in code to not display infect the ad if coming from a Right Media IPs. These ‘Agent’ trojans are becoming popular vehicles to deliver more dangerous malware.

Tags: Emerging Threats, Events, Malware, Patch Management

Author: Christopher