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Scammers Trick Another Site Into Serving Malware

It would seem another popular website was tricked into serving up malware-laced ads. Last month it was the NY Times that got hit, this time around it was Gawker. Making matters worse, the people behind all this have a pretty good working knowledge of the ad business which helped them pull off the scam.

Scammers posing as the well-known ad agency Spark-SMG tricked Gawker Media into running a fake Suzuki ad last week that served malicious code, according to a report in Silicon Alley Insider. A similar scam hit the New York Times in September. Unlike the newspaper, Gawker has released the e-mails it exchanged with the scammers, and the messages show just how confidently the perps navigated the ad-buy process.