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Persistent Black Hole Spam Runs Underway

30

Apr

2012

Over the past month we’ve been investigating several high-volume spam runs that sent users to websites compromised with the Black Hole exploit kit. Some of the spam runs that were part of this investigation used the name of Facebook, and US Airways. Other spam runs involved LinkedIn, as well as USPS. The most recent campaign […]

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Hack found on AVG interview site

15

Mar

2012

AVG Anti-Virus, a company headquartered not too many kilometers down the road from the AVAST main offices in Prague, promoted an interview with their community manager today on Facebook. Hoping to learn a thing or two, we curiously clicked on the link. To our surprise, avast! blocked it as a malicious URL. When we attempted […]

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Surprising hack found on multiple sites

15

Mar

2012

From the “It-could-happen-to-you” file: We innocently clicked on a link which was promoted today on a trustworthy company’s Facebook page. To our surprise, avast! blocked it as a malicious URL. When we attempted to open the URL, it was redirected to dumb.cn.mn which triggered the blocking action. The only content on dumb.cn.mm is one word […]

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