Trend Micro researchers have been following a “malvertising†trend that has been affecting more than 113,000 U.S. internet users each month. The criminal’s main target? YouTube visitors.
The criminals have been successful in their latest campaign by making their ads appear on the more popular YouTube videos. They get away with this not by directly leading to the malicious sites, but passing it through two advertising sites to keep a lower profile and not get fully discovered. In other words, the criminals bought traffic from legitimate ad providers.
Fortunately, if you keep Internet Explorer updated there should be a patch installed to block them and Google is aware and will likely put a stop to it. For more information, click here.