Spotify Attack Under Glass

Spotify is a popular streaming music service. Last week, many Spotify Free user met an unpleasant surprise when malware found its way into vulnerable systems via malicious ad shown in Spotify. Avast! Virus Lab has made some interesting remarks. "According to the avast! Virus Lab, the majority of Spotify users reporting the malware were in Sweden (59%), followed by a large group (40%) in the UK. The remaining 1% came from other countries. There were no reports from France – an interesting twist due to the large avast! user base there.", Lyle Frink writes in Avast blog.

Detailed report about Spotify malicious ad problem can be read at Websense.com.