Huang says that his researchers tested the malware against multiple anti-virus products and only 2 out of 42 vendors detected it. The malicious ads were discovered by an Armorize program called Hack Alert that scans web sites for malicious activity. However, itвЂ™s seen as deceptive that Google explicitly mentions in its own support page that places that the user has been are no longer stored once they turn off Location History, but still somehow tracks users. 'Our security team is in touch with Armorize to help investigate and help remove any affected creatives from any other ad platforms.' Google has been upfront, for the most part, about asking permission to use oneвЂ™s location information, according to the report. You may be browsing using a proxy that is blocking that address your router or firewall may be blocking the domain you may have blocked doubleclick in your hosts file you may have installed a DNS ad blocker like pi-hole or maybe you have installed any number of tools that might block these requests. DoubleClick, the Google-owned ad technology, has been distributing malware in an online ad served through a number of websites, according to the security researcher who says he discovered the. 'We can confirm that the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, which has automatic malware filters, independently detected several creatives containing malware, and blocked them instantly - within seconds,' a Google spokesman wrote in an e-mail. Last night, researchers at Malwarebytes noticed strange behavior on sites like Last.fm, The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post. It's not clear if the malware Armorize found is the same malware Google detected or a different attack. Google acknowledged the issue in a statement to Threat Level and said it recently detected malware on its own through its DoubleClick Ad Exchange filter but this malware was stopped and never got served through its system to web sites. Huang says the infections appear to have begun no earlier than Dec. DoubleClick, the Google-owned ad technology, has been distributing malware in an online ad served through a number of websites, according to the security researcher who says he discovered the attack.

It's not known how many machines may have been infected by the malicious ad or how man web sites have displayed it. Huang says a backdoor is also installed on the user's machines, but he says researchers are still examining it to determine what it does.

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