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My spam honeypots yesterday yielded a nice example of a spam attack being used to lure people to servers hosting the infamous Blackhole exploit kit, which we've blogged about several times in the last six months or so. The spam arrived the evening before. Here's how it looked: Clicking on one of the links took […]

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The AVG Web Threats research group has detected an obfuscated redirect on a page belonging to a vendor listed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) web site. Visitors following the link on a TSA page were also served exploits via a Blackhole exploit kit. AVG personnel alerted TSA and the vendor to the problem […]

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Introduction to Threat Encyclopedia The Threat Encyclopedia is where we arm you with all the knowledge you need to understand and avoid malware of all types. This isn’t an in-depth analysis of malware code but instead covers the basics and helps you understand what antivirus programs like AVG protect you from. Blackhole Exploit Kits: What […]

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