Thousands of website owners using the MadAdsMedia ad service were furious after Google Safe Browsing blocked them. websites their.
A number of users have reported to the Google Forum and the Digital Point forum that their site is blocked by GSB and shows the following warning message: "This site [website] has been reported as a malicious attack page and has been blocked according to your security preferences ".
Even after removing the MadAdsMedia script from their website, it still shows it warning for Malware.
It is still unknown whether Google has accidentally blocked these sites or MadAdsWebsite has been tampered with to serve malicious ads.
According to the fz6 -forum, one server of MadAdsMedia had been hacked and some ads contained malicious code.
"This message is about the latest malware warnings that some of our managers may have encountered. Just before noon today, our engineers discovered that a place serving our ads has been violated. "
"Given that this attack was detected, our engineering team worked diligently until 15:45 EST to ensure that appropriate measures are taken to better safety of the server. Unfortunately, during this time, the attack was carried out on 7,8% of admin domains.” Says the announcement from MadMAdsMedia.
Source: iguru.gr