Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet

Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet by hippich on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:15PM (#6142745)

w8... does adwords allow you to include JS into ads? If no, how he get his js into ads?

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Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet by jdangu on Thursday August 01, 2013 @06:04PM (#6143893)

Last time I checked, adwords failed to detect javascript injection from an obfuscated Flash creative. That's the kind of things that we detect at ClarityAd via dynamic analysis.

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Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet by dudus on Thursday August 01, 2013 @06:50PM (#6144139)

Aren't people moving away from flash creatives yet?

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Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet by jdangu on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:37PM (#6144855)

Flash is still the standard for "rich media" ads, despite the lack of mobile coverage. HTML5 ads are growing fast but still very small.

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Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet by kposehn on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:32PM (#6143308)

No - AdWords is bidding on search and only allows text in ads. He is most likely using one of the less-policed RTB trading desks.

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