Technology, Gadgets, the Online World
The well known gadget blog, Gizzmodo was harbouring more than just articles on the latest technology when advertising on the site was found to contain malicious code. The malicious code was added by hackers that were able to trick the site owners into thinking that they were from legitimate advertisers, Suzuki.
A similar attack occurred on the New York Times website, a month early where hackers posed as representitives from the telephone company Vonage.
The advertisments attempt to convince you that there is a virus on your computer and then try to sell you fake virus software which steals your bank details as we reported in an earlier post. Gizzmodo have appologised for the mistake saying that they take security very seriously and that it has been fixed now. By gaining access to trusted sites in this way the hackers are doing everything they can to exploit the good reputation of these popular sites.
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