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Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:22 AM

Announcement: the FTC goes after those behind "Winfixer" fraudware

The FTC has announced that it has filed a lawsuit targeting the miscreants behind the fraudware/scareware commonly known as "Winfixer". The FTC are suing Innovative Marketing, Inc ., also d/b/a Billingnow , BillPlanet PTE Ltd ., Globedat , Innovative...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:34 AM

Malvertizing at variety.com?

Cite: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=612707351ed6b298&hl=en I disagree with the theory being espoused by some in that thread (that the site is hacked and/or htaccess has been manipulated). This is because: the thread author...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:16 AM

ALERT: treat all content from Olympic Media (olympicmedia.net) with extreme caution

Olympic Media has been caught distributing malvertizing ... again ( thanks to Kimberley for the heads up ). Why do I say again? Because a usatoday representative posted to my blog back in September claiming that Olympic Media had sold them a malvertizement...
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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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Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:19 PM

Atrivo/Intercage have been knocked offline again?

Surprise surprise. Screenshot taken just a few minutes ago... http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595&v=4&view=2.0
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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 30, 2008 2:14 PM

Neowin.net announces a new version of Spybot Search & Destroy, but.....

Neowin says : "Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications . Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that...
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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

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Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:25 AM

Press Release: Attorney General McKenna’s new laws go into effect Thursday

The full press release is below. The section most relevant to this blog is the new laws related to spyware. A change that I anticipate will have a great impact is that the new laws " Create liability for web hosting services who ignore violators...
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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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