Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet
by kposehn on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:31PM
(#6143299)
This is an issue we've been aware of for some time.
This isn't quite as easy to do as you might think however. While the cost might be low to run the ads, typically most RTB ad networks do not actually allow you to use external ad tags that can call arbitrary JS.
That said, some do allow this (like the one the speaker used), and the ones who don't police their JS ad tags are going to be wide awake tonight thinking of how they can.
This isn't quite as easy to do as you might think however. While the cost might be low to run the ads, typically most RTB ad networks do not actually allow you to use external ad tags that can call arbitrary JS.
That said, some do allow this (like the one the speaker used), and the ones who don't police their JS ad tags are going to be wide awake tonight thinking of how they can.