Ad 'Doubleclick' Google infiltrated Trojan virus

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One of the virus from the Trojan family yesterday (19/09) known to sneak in some Google ads. Automatic, the presence of the virus to make millions of computers in the world are threatened global-scale hacking.

According to The Verge (19/09), researchers announced the discovery of multiple origin Malwarebytes Google Doubleclick ads are very aggressive. The ads are accused can disable the warning contained in a computer antivirus and attack multiple systems belonging to Malwarebytes.

Malwarebytes alone find ads that are known to contain a Trojan virus 'Zemot' in several news portals like The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post. Researchers Malwarebytes, Jerome Segura, revealed when the Zemot virus entered through Google's DoubleClick ad servers and ad agencies ZEDO.

In response to hacking and virus distribution Zemot, Google said when it had to know the hacking activities and were trying to remove it from their server.

Segura added if infection with this virus has been started since the end of last August. After nearly a month passed, Segura predict if there are currently millions of computers that have been compromised by a virus Zemot.

Zemot virus itself will not damage the system immediately after infection, but only to break into the system and pave the way for others to enter the dangerous virus. Derivative of this Trojan virus is more common in the computer with the Windows XP operating system. However, Zemot could otherwise attack computers with x86 architecture modern OS and 64-bit.

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