Gumtree serves world's worst exploit kit to scores of Aussies Malware expert Jerome Segura says Australia's most popular classifieds site, Gumtree.com.au, was serving the world's most capable exploit kit to some of its millions of monthly visitors. The site is Australia's twelfth-most-popular website and last month attracted some 47.8 million views. Parent site eBay Australia scored 74.6 …
"Any chance Gumtree or their ad slingers will cough up for the cost of scanning and cleaning those visitor's PCs, or for some sort of identity theft monitoring service for those users?"
No, they'll just continue to stick their fingers in their ears and chant "LALALALALA" in the direction of everyone who tries to make them accept that there is a problem - and that their basic business model is a massive part of that problem. While at the same time, crying about ad blockers killing the web in the direction of everyone else.
"The attacks are so successful because it exploits weaknesses in the global online advertising structure where high-pace and low-profit margins leave little room for complex buyer and content integrity checks."
The attacks are so successful because they exploit weaknesses in the global online advertising cartels where apathy and profit motive mean advertisers couldn't give a rats arse about buyer and content integrity checks.
FTFY
I mentioned at home that our shiny new firewall has an ad blocker that I hadn't turned on, but it might make our web browsing experience nicer.
One of my boys said that his favourite websites earn a living from advertising and he thought there was a moral dilemma in blocking the ads, which I thought was a good thought from a young man, so I left it off.
I might rethink that after reading this article.
The advertisers brought this whole ad-blocking thing on themselves. If they had stuck to, say, banner and text ads, instead of todays resource-eating ever-tracking annoying (now even frequently with sound!) javascript-dependent disasters, noone would be annoyed or get infected by them.
<<One of my boys said that his favourite websites earn a living from advertising and he thought there was a moral dilemma in blocking the ads, which I thought was a good thought from a young man, so I left it off.
I might rethink that after reading this article.>>
Well, the rest of the world seems to have decided that musicians and other artists should give away their material for free, so I don't see why we need to make a special case for anyone's favourite website, especially if it might be serving up an unwanted fungal infection as a bonus.
Any unpaid for music, photos, or programs on sonny's computer?
On your computer?
I think you are on the right track with your rethink.
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