Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Jerusalem Post
Affected country: Israel
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Visitors of two well-known English-language news websites based in Israel (The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post) could have had their computers infected with malware after cybercriminals managed to hijack the digital ads being served on the site.