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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:10 AM

ALERT: Two malvertizements seen at Spaces (not skydrive) and Hotmail...

Edit: BTW, it is Spaces and Hotmail - I haven't seen the malvert at Skydrive yet. Kimberley saw the first one, a malvertizement featuring perfectmatch.com: I have discovered another malvertizement featuring IMIN - we have seen this advert several...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:46 PM

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: January through June 2008

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report for the period covering January through June 2008 has been released. Executive Summary Full report Key findings summary The full report is a hefty 150 pages long. I have only had time to take the briefest of...
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Friday, October 31, 2008 8:29 PM

SWF for malware deployment

Mea culpa: Marian is apparently male, not female. Marian Radu of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center has written about SWF being used for malware . She He states: " What I found out is that, excluding flash exploits, SWFs are mainly used as redirectors...
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Monday, August 18, 2008 6:57 PM

Hold fire on Fuse Kit....

Moses Gunesch, the author of Fuse Kit, has posted a comment to my blog here: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/17/1644872.aspx#1644983 I may have to eat an awful lot of humble-pie if I have misunderstood the capabilities and features...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:21 PM

ALERT: Firefox with NoScript does NOT ALWAYS protect from SWF clipboard hijacks

Topic subjected edited to add the word "always". I stand by my statement that there are users out there who believe that "NoScript" will protect them from incidents like the clipboard hijack, even when they have disabled "Forbid...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 3:46 AM

ALERT: malvertizement at newsweek.com (hosted by washingtonpost.com)

Edit: Please review this article re Fuse: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/19/1644991.aspx Once again, it is a malvertizement created using Fuse Kit. Again, there are signs that the malvertizement came from the now defunct trackstarmedia...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:31 AM

ALERT: malvertizement featuring cardstore.com

Edited to fix typos - changing cardshop to cardstore - (it had been a *long* day) I finally got a sample of the malicious advertisement featuring cardstore.com: Interesting points to bear in mind about this incident are: The malvertizement was received...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:30 AM

ALERT: malvertizement from trackstarmedia.com (domain suspended)

Edit: please review this URL re Fuse: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/19/1644991.aspx I have just received word that a malvertizement featuring cardstore.com has been discovered. The distributor of the malvertizement is, according...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:46 AM

ALERT: Watch out for new malvertizements featuring ETRADE

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Monday, June 23, 2008 12:45 PM

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (July through December 2007) - Key Findings Summary (Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and Norway)

Downloadable here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=671355c2-4002-4671-8619-95c96c8a897f&displaylang=en&tm The worldwide average was malware removal from 1 out of every 123 Windows-based computers in the second half of...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:47 AM

New malvertizements featuring diamondharmony.com

Screenshot of diamondharmony.com malvertizement
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:10 AM

ALERT: Malvertizements at disney.fr

These criminals, whoever they are, have absolutely no shame. I thought that they were the scum of the earth when they impersonated Oxfam; now they are getting their malvertizements onto popular chidren's sites. As reported by Kimberley - the malvertizements...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:14 PM

ALERT: Adobe Flash Player SWF File Unspecified Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Affected versions are 9.0.124.0 and 9.0.115.0. The best analysis that I've seen so far is at SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29386/info The frightening thing about this alert is that the vulnerability is being actively exploited, with...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:39 AM

A new look dottunes malvertizement

A new style Dot Tunes advertisement: The adopstools results are here: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=r60Siyiw02bZgpaa When the SWF is displayed on a system it hits the following URLs: traveltray.com/crossdomain.xml and traveltray...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:17 AM

I am NOT associated with bucksbill.com

Ok, there are a lot of people out there who are upset at being overcharged and defrauded by bucksbill.com. Just check out the comments here and here . Unfortunately, people are also emailing me directly because they (mistakenly) believe that I and/or...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:26 AM

ALERT: Malvertizement at en.f1-live.com?

A comment has been made to this blog warnin that http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/index.shtml has been serving malvertizements during the the past week or so. We're investigating. If anybody sees anything, please let me know.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:23 AM

ALERT: malvertizement at boston.com?

I received this alert via email: " My girlfriend was surfing boston.com last night and she landed on some nasty code that redirected her to that classic alert bos in the lower left hand corner of the screen. This time is was for XPShield which is...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:20 AM

Press Release: Washington Attorney General settles case with man accused of using pop-ups to hawk software

SEATTLE – A 21-year-old Scottsdale, Ariz., man accused of coercing consumers to buy software that actually turned their computers into spamming machines agreed to a settlement that substantially restricts how he markets software in the future, the Washington...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:56 AM

Photobucket.com - an update

I am pleased to advise that one of the malvertizements that was appearing at photobucket.com, being the Tokyo Drift malvertizement being distrubted via adbureau.net, has been removed from circulation. As far as I know, the other malvertizements, hosted...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:52 AM

Photobucket are not cleaning up their act

Photobucket has been mentioned several times on this blog because of malvertizements appearing on the site. The most recent outbreak is proving to be problematic, to say the least. Photobucket have been advised several times that there are malvertizements...
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