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Weekly Threat Update: Week 14

06

Apr

2012

1. eBay.co.uk listing redirecting bidders to exploit kit AVG analysts have discovered an ebay.co.uk auction listing that is redirecting bidders to a Blackhole exploit kit. After visiting the listing, users are redirected to an ebay.666222666.com site that is hosting the exploit kit. At this point they are served malicious .JAR (Java), .SWF (Adobe Flash file), […]

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Flash-Based Fake Antivirus Software: Windows Risk Minimizer

23

Mar

2012

Fake antivirus software or "scareware" is nothing new, but these applications continue to get more sophisticated. We recently discovered a relatively new fake antivirus application called Windows Risk Minimizer. The fake antivirus software was promoted through spam sent from a popular webmail service. This is slightly unusual as normally fake antivirus infections arrive through drive-by […]

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Analysis of a Blackhole Exploit page

21

Feb

2012

The Blackhole Exploit kit is still a very popular attack on the web. They are many variants of the threat. Here is a detailed analysis of one Exploit kit page and the obfuscation technique leveraged by the attack. In this example, the exploit is heavily obfuscated. The exploit has been encoded and stored as HTML […]

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