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Fake Flash updates are leveraged as a very popular trick amongst attackers to fool users into downloading and installing malware. This week we found a three websites distributing Win32.Sanity.N malware disguised as Flash updates: hxxp://kivancoldu.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/ http://kivancoldu.com on 05/02/2013 hxxp://fastcekim.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/ hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/ d(down) hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/ The fake warning at the top of […]

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Last week I described how Chrome and Firefox are protecting users against vulnerable plugins, Flash and Java amongst them, with Click to Play. Microsoft has a different approach with Windows 8 when it comes to protecting users against attack using the Flash plugin. Embedded Flash Player Windows 8 ships with its own version of Flash. […]

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Earlier this week, I researched the top websites blacklisted by Google. I’ve looked at more of these websites over the last three days to better understand the most common attacks. The findings are quite disappointing. First, most infected websites are not cleaned up after three days. Webmasters should see a huge drop in their traffic, […]

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