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29
Sep
2011

Bad adverts in Bing leading end-users to Malware downloads first popped up on our radar on the 16th of September, and we covered them again on the 19th. Well, they’re back again – this time promoting fake Firefox downloads whose ads are displayed when searching for….wait for it….”Firefox download”:  Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge You’ll […]

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Overnight we saw a number of adverts being displayed in Bing that were directing end-users to malicious content. These adverts were promoting all manner of downloads including Firefox, Skype and uTorrent. Some of the search terms used: “FireFox Download” “Download Skype” “Download Adobe Player” As you can see, they’re not particularly complicated or unusual searches […]

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