• Malware menaces poison ads as Google, Yahoo! look away; "malvertising" expected to cost $1B in damag
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[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/27/malvertising_feature/[/url] [quote=The Register]Online advertising has become an increasingly potent threat to end-user security on the internet. More hackers than ever are targeting the internet's money engine, using it as a powerful attack vector to hide exploits and compromise huge numbers of victims. Malvertising, as poisoned ads are known, is as deadly as it is diverse. Hackers are able to poison advertisements with the world's most capable exploit kits, then pay to have it served on a large number of prominent websites. Up to half of users exposed to the very worst forms of malvertising fall victim, yet tracking the attacks is often tricky. Advertisements are dynamic and served only to certain users, on certain websites, in certain conditions, making attacks difficult to study. Ads as an attack vector was identified in 2007 when security responders began receiving reports of malware hitting user machines as victims viewed online advertisements. By year's end William Salusky of the SANS Internet Storms Centre had concocted a name for the attacks. Since then malvertising has exploded. This year it increased by more than 260 percent on the previous year, with some 450,000 malicious ads reported in the first six months alone, according to numbers by RiskIQ. Last year, security firm Cyphort found a 300 percent increase in malvertising. In 2013, the Online Trust Alliance logged a more than 200 percent increase in malvertising incidents compared to 2012, serving some 12.4 billion malvertisement impressions. It is a scourge that, according to malvertising research, will inflict up to US$1 billion in damages this year, making the threat difficult to overstate. June was at the time the worst month for malvertising in history. The record was usurped the next month. Now some researchers say August might be next.[/quote]
And people have the nerve to shame me for using Adblock Plus
[QUOTE=Jzzb;48556507]And people have the nerve to shame me for using Adblock Plus[/QUOTE] But how will you learn to master guitar in 5 minutes? Or get ripped in 2 weeks? Or make $500/hour in 1 easy trick? Or ever find out why that nerd is fucking 10x more girls than you and here's why?
[QUOTE=Jzzb;48556507]And people have the nerve to shame me for using Adblock Plus[/QUOTE] and now they will sorry and asks on how install.
[QUOTE=Jzzb;48556507]And people have the nerve to shame me for using Adblock Plus[/QUOTE] They're probably shaming you only because you're not using a more resource efficient ad blocker like uBlock/uB Origin.
I initially read the title as $18 and was very, very confused.
Someonewhocares.org/hosts No excuse to not use this if you use IE or Edge.
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;48557720]Someonewhocares.org/hosts No excuse to not use this if you use IE or Edge.[/QUOTE] Excuse: Edge will have addon support later this year
[QUOTE=Jzzb;48556507]And people have the nerve to shame me for using Adblock Plus[/QUOTE] I wish I could figure out how to get it to work on my tablet. You don't know how many times I get stuck being redirected to these "your android has a virus!!" type of sites which will keep redirecting me in when I hit the back button, making it near impossible to close the tab. Or popups where the x button is so small it freezes the entire browser trying to get it to do that magnify stuff. Advertisements are a fucking scourge and easily one of the worst things to happen to sites like youtube. The day I can get away from this malicious cancer cannot come soon enough, and I am still baffled that there are people out there that aspire to work in advertisements as if it were a glamorous profession.
I can't wait until something is fucking done about this. These bastards need to be cracked down on.
We need a new form of adverrisement that is properly moderated, has actual smart targeting, and is just text with the occasional thumbnail. Then maybe i could get a use out of ads
Hah. Another chunk of evidence atop the mountain of evidence proving internet ads are a way for malware to get served to you from legit websites. Wonder how many people will continue to defend ads after this...probably quite a few. [QUOTE=wickedplayer494;48556522]They're probably shaming you only because you're not using a more resource efficient ad blocker like uBlock/uB Origin.[/QUOTE] No, they're shaming us because we have the audacity to get rid of ads in general. There's a shockingly high amount of people on the internet who think internet ads are good and that blocking them is somehow wrong. I don't understand them either. These ads have for the longest time been a known vector for malware to get served from legit websites like Youtube, yet apparently closing that vector makes you a bad person. Idunno either.
[QUOTE=TestECull;48558715]Hah. Another chunk of evidence atop the mountain of evidence proving internet ads are a way for malware to get served to you from legit websites. Wonder how many people will continue to defend ads after this...probably quite a few. No, they're shaming us because we have the audacity to get rid of ads in general. There's a shockingly high amount of people on the internet who think internet ads are good and that blocking them is somehow wrong. I don't understand them either. These ads have for the longest time been a known vector for malware to get served from legit websites like Youtube, yet apparently closing that vector makes you a bad person. Idunno either.[/QUOTE] its some moral crusade people have lol. "you didnt give content creators a thousandth of a penny, you monster!" ill donate $0.50 to w/e content creators i like and call it even. i gave my share, and then some, and nobody can get mad at me using adblock.
Yeah sorry, not ever gonna feel bad for using an ad blocker. Would rather continue browsing a clean internet and not get infected.
I'd rather give donations than get my shit fucking wrecked by malware, sorry if that somehow makes me a monster.
[QUOTE=Leintharien;48557917]I wish I could figure out how to get it to work on my tablet. You don't know how many times I get stuck being redirected to these "your android has a virus!!" type of sites which will keep redirecting me in when I hit the back button, making it near impossible to close the tab. Or popups where the x button is so small it freezes the entire browser trying to get it to do that magnify stuff. Advertisements are a fucking scourge and easily one of the worst things to happen to sites like youtube. The day I can get away from this malicious cancer cannot come soon enough, and I am still baffled that there are people out there that aspire to work in advertisements as if it were a glamorous profession.[/QUOTE] On my Android tablet I dowloaded Adblock from the Google Play store and I've set some proxy thingy, the port should be written in the top notifications menu, or whatever it's called.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;48556522]They're probably shaming you only because you're not using a more resource efficient ad blocker like uBlock/uB Origin.[/QUOTE] More efficient but far less useful than Adblock (although Plus is a waste and is not to be trusted, get [URL="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/"]Edge[/URL] if you're serious) for quick and fast [URL="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/elemhidehelper/"]precise element blocking[/URL]. uBlock can block elements, but it's a clunky mess and not anywhere near as robust in operation (blocking entire frames (and breaking websites in the process) instead of blocking very specific parts of it). uBlock, one frame: [img]http://i.imgur.com/V5oOttk.png[/img] Edge (with Element Hiding), same frame: [img]http://i.imgur.com/2YgVyMq.png[/img] That's a tiny frame at the top of a website (used to offer services for the site; an annoyance to me, if not an ad itself) that's hooked into vital display elements for the rest of the site; uBlock, regardless of the filter, blocks too much of the frame and bricks the website (literally blank screens). I have it blocked with Edge and have chosen to only block a certain subsection of the frame which removes the entire top banner-thing from sight and interactivity, but allowed the rest of the display elements to operate and kept the site in working condition. Hiding elements is the surest way to permanently block evolving ads (and visually adjust tedious websites via forcing their useless frame shit into none-existence), so going without is not an option for me anymore. I use both Edge and uBlock. They have some overlap but the benefits of using both outweigh using only uBlock. I've long found that using only "the one" addon for ad blocking and security isn't enough if you want to have no mercy. I told myself many years ago that I never, ever wanted to see an ad again. Having over a dozen addons for the purposes of ad blocking and security might seem like overkill, but I haven't seen, heard, nor been forced to watch an ad in half a decade. Only chose one method if you're willing to settle with a subpar experience.
$1B in damages, haha. Whoever does this deserves it.
[QUOTE=Leintharien;48557917]I wish I could figure out how to get it to work on my tablet. [/QUOTE] I switched to firefox on my phone since I can install ublock on it. I've used chrome for years now and I decided to switch to firefox for various reasons and it wasn't as much hassle as I thought it would be. I feel it's a bit more open than chrome too.
[QUOTE=Jzzb;48556507]And people have the nerve to shame me for using Adblock Plus[/QUOTE] And people wonder why people want to block all ads? Because a lot of adware malware and viruses come from popups and ads, or worse Trojan horses. I also use noscript ghostery and a custom Windows host file called how to make the internet suck less.To block as many harmful sites and ads as I can. Using a sandbox helps alot too.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;48556522]They're probably shaming you only because you're not using a more resource efficient ad blocker like uBlock/uB Origin.[/QUOTE] ublock doesn't also jewout like adblock, adblock allows whitelisted etc while ublock uses less ram and no jews are running it [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Big Dumb American))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=formatme;48568860]ublock doesn't also jewout like adblock, adblock allows whitelisted etc while ublock uses less ram and no jews are running it[/QUOTE] jews? what?
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;48568885]jews? what?[/QUOTE] jew jokes aside: [url]https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adblock-plus[/url] I think ublock tries to be more of a generic/universal blocker than adblock plus. I used adblock to block things that weren’t ads (like the facepunch user titles) so ublock tries to address things like that I guess.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;48568885]jews? what?[/QUOTE] He is implying that people can buy their way out of being blocked by the default EasyList I think.
[QUOTE=Jzzb;48556507]And people have the nerve to shame me for using Adblock Plus[/QUOTE] I suggest you switch to uBlock, ABP failed to block some recent google ads on imgur for me which proves that its trash.
[QUOTE=gdfsgdfg;48568943]I suggest you switch to uBlock, ABP failed to block some recent google ads on imgur for me which proves that its trash.[/QUOTE] That's probably because you have allow some non intrusive advertising turned on in the filter preferences turn it off and it should block all ads.
[QUOTE=Enola;48556520]But how will you learn to master guitar in 5 minutes? Or get ripped in 2 weeks? Or make $500/hour in 1 easy trick? Or ever find out why that nerd is fucking 10x more girls than you and here's why?[/QUOTE] jokes on that fucking nerd 10 x 0 is 0
[QUOTE=zeromancer;48571229]jokes on that fucking nerd 10 x 0 is 0[/QUOTE] Really? :why:
Im currently using uBlock on Chrome for my laptop and Adblock Edge is only on Mozilla(discontinued), any other alternatives?
Ya this is why i feel zero guilt about running adblock. soory but i shouldn't have to cringe at 5-10 minute load times for things that should take seconds just cause you have some need for ad revenue.
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