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Spam Leads to Exploits and Fake AV on Twitter

17

Apr

2012

There’s been a couple of rather nasty spam runs taking place on Twitter over the last few days. Heres an example of a rogue URL being spread at the weekend: Click to Enlarge The link in question – fuuut(dot)tk, was being sent by both compromised accounts and spambots. Anybody visiting the link would find themselves […]

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Hacked Japanese Site Ambushes Visitors

09

Aug

2011

Normally, the WebPulse team doesn’t bother with questions like “What countries are involved in malware attack A?” or “What malware should people in country B worry about?” Our primary focus is on finding malware attacks and blocking them for ALL our users, since no one wants malware on their network, regardless of where it comes […]

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Update Center targets Chrome and Firefox with fake flash updates

11

Jul

2011

Browser specific scams have mostly been seen in the realm of rogue AV attacks, but here’s one (located at update-center(dot)myftp(dot)org) that checks out your browsing credentials then sends you to one of the below locations for a fake flash update: IE8: Redirected to usa(dot)gov. No fake flash for IE users. It’s a different story for […]

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