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AVG Web Threat Update: Week 20

21

May

2012

1. What’s lurking in those links on YouTube? YouTube visitors should be wary of the links that come with YouTube videos and should be especially wary of videos that turn out to be graphics directing them to links on the page. This one “only” had a survey scam on it. An earlier version, which was […]

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Answers.com hit by BlackHole

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May

2012

In the morning of May 12th our malware outbreak sensors registered another BlackHole outbreak hitting one of the Top 200 Alexa rank domains: Answers.com. Its RSS feed generated resource was infected with BlackHole exploit kit. The XML output file at the URL feeds.answers.com was prepended with an obfuscated JavaScript. The malicious code looks like this: […]

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Spam Leads to Exploits and Fake AV on Twitter

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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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