Attempted Malvertising on Krebs OnSecurity.com
Summary: Members of the Darkode.com hacker forum sought to plant malware on KrebsOnSecurity.com by paying at least $272 for up to 10,000 impressions of a tainted ad made to look like BitDefender antivirus software but designed to load the scareware domain sophakevans.co.cc. Federated Media blocked the ad before it was tagged for approval, and the site's author had already gained access to Darkode and captured a screenshot of the discussion.
Key Takeaway: The ad was stopped by a human review step and a network block, not by the site's own defenses - and the same forum's administrator, Mafi, develops the Crimepack exploit kit, so the next attempt may not be a $272 ad buy.
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