One of the women on his site is Jacky, 36, a single mother from Stuttgart who works in a bistro. According to the team, of those click-throughs, 20,000 could have been easily exploited for known vulnerabilities using a customized botnet. Except the owner of a regional chain of shoe shops probably wouldn’t have a personalised number plate reading SEX 69. The picture was taken around 2009 for a porn site by Pantheon Productions photographer Walter Smith, who. According to a 2010 study, a research team purchased 47,000 clicks to a test porn site for only $160, no questions asked. Among the sites using the image is popular sports and popular culture blog Barstool Sports. The prevalence of malware on even “established” sites is largely the result of traffic brokers who facilitate the seedy world of targeted nekkid-people link exchanges.
And within this largely unpoliced ad bonanza, malware chefs have been given an opportunity to expose their malicious code to a high volume of unassuming porn consumers.
In the wake of this great democratization of flesh, we have seen the rise of highly trafficked websites whose business model has been built around offering free content to run along ads. (And, just for fun, TechHive had 0 malware incidences out of 492 pages tested, thank you very much.)Īs pornography has become ubiquitous and free, the audience willing to pay for it has dwindled. As a point of comparison, Facebook, the world’s top-trafficked site, had only 127 incidences of malware out of 818,788 sampled pages YouTube, the net’s third most popular site, had 348 incidences out of 16,004,642 pages sampled and CNN had zero incidences our of 41,628 pages sampled. Their ad system was hacked and used for malware.”Īccording to Google Safe Browsing, of its 21,253 pages sampled over the past 90 days, Xhamster was found to have 1067 pages with malicious software. Gay Porn Star Dead at 21 By Janice Williams On 10/9/18 at 10:14 AM EDT Candles are seen during a vigil held in memory of murdered Melbourne comedian, 22-year-old Eurydice Dixon, at Princess Park. “For example, in the past we had such issues with one of the top five porn pay sites in the world. “The problem is that even reliable advertisers sometimes can be hacked,” a spokesperson for the site told the BBC.
the 46th most popular website in the world, and which Longmore found offered visitors a 42 percent chance of coming into contact with malware-claims that much of the malware problem is the result of lax security from third-party advertisers.