AOL has taken steps to stop a set of malicious advertisements being served through their sites, including The Huffington Post, Computer Business Review reports.
SC Magazine explains that the malicious ads were redirecting users to landing pages designed to serve up a couple of exploit kits, which would then take advantage of a Flash vulnerability to download the Kovter trojan (detected by ESET as Win32/Kovter) in a drive-by attack.
AOL blocks malicious ads from its advertising platform
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