Malvertizing on Facebook via Farm Town banner advertisements

Farm Town have addressed the issue by disabling all (non-Facebook sourced) banner advertising, but it’s not the first time they have had problems – my regular readers will remember that Farm Town was displaying malvertizing back in April of last year.

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Source: http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4416182&postcount=4

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Source: http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4417018&postcount=22

 

This is, apparently, a screenshot of a malvertizement in situ, taken during this latest outbreak.

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Source: http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4416322&postcount=10

Published Mon, Feb 7 2011 9:07 by sandi
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