{"id":3640,"date":"2016-10-10T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2016-10-10T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:46:06","slug":"spotify-falls-victim-to-malvertising-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/10\/10\/spotify-falls-victim-to-malvertising-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Falls Victim to Malvertising Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article talks about how users of Spotify&#8217;s free service have noticed that many advertisements automatically open their web browser, without them clicking on the advertisement. These websites\u00a0contain virus and malware, and can contaminate the device without the user taking any action in it. Not only are the users directed to malicious sites, but malware can automatically be downloaded from these sites in attacks known as &#8220;drive-by-attacks&#8221;. These &#8220;malvertising&#8221; campaigns are the results of scripts being hidden in advertisements, which does everything automatically. What worries me, a lot of times advertisements are not thoroughly screened before being accepted. It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if we start seeing more of these types of attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Link:\u00a0http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/spotify-falls-victim-malvertising-attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article talks about how users of Spotify&#8217;s free service have noticed that many advertisements automatically open their web browser, without them clicking on the advertisement. These websites\u00a0contain virus and malware, and can contaminate the device without the user taking any action in it. Not only are the users directed to malicious sites, but malware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716352],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-07-policy-documents-video","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}