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A never-ending Facebook story – Resourceful attackers enlarge their ad networks and earn more and more money with it

06

Jun

2012

It all starts with a post on someone’s Facebook wall: The shortened URL leads to a long URL and its only function is to check the visitor’s country of origin. According to the result, the visitor is put into a quite impressive redirection chain with numerous ad services, built-in via iFrames. Each and every “visit” […]

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OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$

17

May

2012

Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying advertisements on compromised computers. We now have a much clearer idea of how many ads the attackers were displaying and how much those ads […]

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Seeing ads on Wikipedia? You may have malware

15

May

2012

Wikipedia has issued a warning to its many millions of daily visitors that if they are seeing commercial adverts on its webpages, that it may be an indication of a malware infection on the user’s computer.Criminals aren’t shy of earning affiliate cash by injecting unwanted adverts into webpages or redirecting users to sites or search […]

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