The ever-pervasive cyber terrorists of the Internet have struck again, this time upon the Gizmodo website. They were able to dupe the technology blog's advertising team into placing an assortment of malware-filled Internet ads on their pages. Gizmodo's developers didn't know what hit them, which was why several of their regular visitors were victimized by the contagion before any of them could do anything about it.

The anonymous online outlaws of the worldwide web has forced the well-esteemed, Gawker-Media-owned tech site to succumb to a nasty virtual sickness that's replete with online scams and malicious code, so the blog's writers, editors, and other "tech geek" staffers had no choice but to issue an apology over the rather surprising quandary just yesterday. Gizmodo's Brian Lam wrote that he was "really sorry" for the malicious ads that ran on the promo spaces reserved for the Suzuki company. He described the hack as a thoroughly "elaborate scam" that had somehow hoodwinked their ad sales staff. He then reassured that the lapse of security had been presently fixed, and only a few of their visitors were affected by the virtual sucker punch.

Lam conjectured that if it weren't for the fact that everyone in the Gizmodo team uses Linux-enabled machines or the Mac OS X platform, then they could have noticed the malware sooner. They were all literally caught unawares by the actions of these cyber villains. The Gizmodo representative then reassured that everything has already been taken care of, but just in case, users should check for "qegasysguard.exe" if they're experiencing excessive popup problems. He apologized again after recommending system and anti-virus scans to everyone who had been affected by the malware scare.

This was not the first time that a major commercial website was fooled into hosting a malware ad scam into their onsite banners. The prestigious New York Times website had also been victimized by the same e-criminals last September. According to Graham Cluley, a Sophos security guru, the Gizmodo hackers are an ambitious bunch because they were able to penetrate one of most popular blogs in the web. Their malicious faux advertisements for Suzuki would have infected millions of Gizmodo readers worldwide had their plans come to fruition.