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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:56 AM

ALERT: malvertizement on display at jeuxvideo.com

Hat tip to Malekal Deja vu – guess what domains are involved in the jeuxvideo.com incident – adclickmate.net and smartadserver.net . IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT CONFUSE THE MALICIOUS DOMAIN SMARTADSERVER. NET WITH THE LEGITIMATE SMARTADSERVER. COM ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:45 PM

Developments in the FTC v Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit…

Filed - Consent motion to withdraw motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction of defendants James Reno and ByteHosting Internet Services, LLC - 12 February 2009 “ By agreement of the Plaintiff the Federal Trade Commission and Defendants James...
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Friday, February 13, 2009 10:28 PM

Announcement: specialized malvertizing search engine portal

The Google Anti-Malvertizing Team have created a “custom search engine intended to help ad network customers conduct quick background checks on prospective partners" that can be seen here: Google Malvertizing Research The search engine pulls...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:42 PM

Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous, and an update about the status of the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

I'll include some history of events so that you can get a sense of perspective with regards to the time frame around these events.   It is especially important to note that the FTC lawsuit is not the only problem that Jain is facing. ...
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Monday, February 02, 2009 3:54 PM

More information about Olympic Media shenanigans

Ok, when the hijack triggered via the Olympic Media supplied javascript URL that I mentioned in my previous article triggers successfully we hit: admediastats.com/ts/in.cgi?{{redacted}} From there we end up at sg12scanner.com/{{redacted}} From there to...
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Monday, February 02, 2009 1:50 PM

Olympic Media are still active

I’ve warned about Olympic Media several times – they continue to be active. The latest reports indicate they are claiming to be operating out of Canada and are supplying javascript code referring to admin.securityclick.net as follows:     Other...
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Monday, February 02, 2009 11:50 AM

Malvertizing at realtor.com?

I have received two independent reports, several days apart, of a possible malvertizement problem at realtor.com.  If anybody can grab evidence, using Fiddler or your network capture software of choice, we’ll be grateful to hear from you so that...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:42 AM

DIRECTI responds re inaccurate WHOIS complaint time frames

15 days, so they say:   My response? “ This is not good enough.  The domains can be used to facilitate fraud for 15 days? At the very least, posnerpromotion.com should have been isolated before now. posnerpromotion.com redirects to posneradv...
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Monday, January 26, 2009 4:18 PM

Irritating advertisement!!!

Seen (and heard) at 123greetings.com:   Not only does the pictured advertisement flash and bounce, it DINGS, and it keeps on DINGING, sounding exactly like the Windows Error sound effect.  The sound is so intrusive that my husband came in to...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:19 PM

DIRECTI responds to my complaint about the impersonation of domains/businesses

  As you can see from their email, DIRECTI advise that they suspended prolinar.com on 19 January for “Inaccurate whois details”.  It should be noted that I reported on 16 January that prolinar.com had already disappeared from its previous IP...
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Friday, January 16, 2009 10:42 PM

ALERT: Please treat all content from topstarmedia.net and osmedlin.com with extreme caution - do we find DIRECTI? Yes we do!

I received an email alert today reporting that topstarmedia.net is supplying JavaScript code for advertising campaigns as follows: osmedlin.com/?id=<<removed>> To quote my correspondent, topstarmedia’s approach had "ll the hallmarks-...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:49 PM

Glowing brain malvertizement – and, once again, we find DIRECTI

  Adopstools results: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=26gBv5P94L5CW849   Touches the domain adclickmate.net Registrar: DIRECTI (yet again) Created 24 March 2008 NS1.ADCLICKMATE.NET NS2.ADCLICKMATE.NET IP: 212.95.37...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:03 PM

Potential malvertizement featuring the Disney movie “Bolt”

  Adopstools results: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=YNgNHCUFU1pAgA94
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:09 AM

Directi Internet Solutions strikes again

I ask you – just how obvious does the impersonation of a legitimate company have to be before Directi notices and stops a site from going live *before* it can do harm??? quigley-simpson.net Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS Created 17 December 2008...
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Monday, January 05, 2009 8:15 AM

ALERT: traffichunter.net and traffichunters.net – spot the similarities to Olympic Media

I think it is fair to say that all content from traffichunter.net and traffichunters.net should be treated with extreme caution. First of all, I received an email warning me that there are remarkable similarities between the Olympic Media web site and...
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Friday, January 02, 2009 6:33 PM

Developments in the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

  Daniel Sundin, Maurice D'Souza, Innovative Marketing Inc, ByteHosting Internet Services LLC and James Reno are still unrepresented. Sam Jain is represented by Robert D Luskin and Edward S Wisneski of Patton Boggs. Marc D'Souza is represented...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:56 PM

ALERT: malicious content (including malware via security exploit) seen via MySpace chat

Kimberley reports on the incident . Userplane is a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL (yes, I have written to my contacts there), and Kimberley is getting in touch with the appropriate people at MySpace to try and get this shut down ASAP.   Some important...
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Friday, December 19, 2008 1:17 PM

ALERT: malvertizement featuring Talbots

Adopstools results: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=RC567srdR4afU35z The malicious ad hits two URLs: freegreenstats.com /c/index.php?id=<<snipped>> (79.135.187.95) and statisticsmanager.com /?cmpid=<<snipped>>...
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Friday, December 19, 2008 10:03 AM

Developments in the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

Well well, people have been busy. Various documents were filed on the 17th, including: Entry of Appearance on behalf of Mark D'Souza by Counsel Russell D Duncan of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Entry of Appearance on behalf of Sam Jain by Counsel...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:25 PM

Developments in the FTC v Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

"We sometimes forget that Justice wields a sword..." My regular readers will recall that the temporary restraining order won by the FTC expired on 12 December 2008 at 6.15pm, and that each individual, corporate and relief defendant was ordered...
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