Malvertising attack menaces Match.com users with tainted love
Update Security researchers have uncovered a malvertising attack run over ad networks and aimed at users of dating site Match.com.
The tainted ads are mainly targeting UK users, security firm Malwarebytes warns. Match.com’s servers themselves have not been breached.
The latest attack follows a similar assault against Match’s sister site PlentyofFish last month. The same gang are using Google shortened URLs that ultimately lead, through a series of redirections, to sites hosting the Angler exploit kit, according to Malwarebytes.
The assault against lovestruck users of Match.com is ultimately geared towards flinging variants of the CryptoWall ransomware and the Bedep ad fraud Trojan.
Malwarebytes alerted Match.com and the related advertisers, but the malvertising campaign is still ongoing via other routes, the security firm warns.
Match.com clocks up 27m users per month worldwide.
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A spokesperson for Match.com said: “We take the security of our members very seriously indeed. We are currently investigating this alleged issue.” ®
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