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Trojan Hijacks Google Text Ads


BitDefender nabs a new Trojan commandeering Host files to deliver third-party advertising instead of Google's. Malware authors are beginning to nibble at Google's text advertising money pie. According to a warning from anti-virus vendor BitDefender, a new Trojan is making the rounds, hijacking Google text advertisements and replacing them with ads from a different provider.

The Trojan.Qhost.WU threat works by modifying the hijacked computer's Hosts file to redirect the initial query to the Google AdSense servers to a malicious host. Instead of getting advertising content from Google's"page2.googlesyndication.com" domain, the Trojan, discovered Dec. 17, instructs the infected machine to fetch ads from a different, third-party ad server, according to BitDefender virus researcher Attila Balazs. BitDefender did not identify the rogue third-party ad server. Balazs said the threat is a worry for Webmasters and end users. Trojan Hijacks Google Text Ads





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