An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes TechHive:
Spotify’s ads crossed from nuisance over to outright nasty this week, after the music service’s advertising started serving up malware to users on Wednesday. The malware was able to automatically launch browser tabs on Windows and Mac PCs, according to complaints that surfaced online…the ads directed users’ browsers to other malware-containing sites in the hopes that someone would be duped into downloading more malicious software.

It didn’t last long — Spotify quickly posted that they’d identified “the source of the problem.” And they’re not the only company dealing with hidden malware in ads, since the same thing has happened to both Google and Yahoo.

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Source: Slashdot – A Spotify Ad Slipped Malware Onto PCs and Macs