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Tracking a Large Fake-AV Campaign

04

Apr

2012

Time for a quick blog post on an attack we've been following for several weeks now. I've seen a few news articles and blog posts that could be describing it, at least in general terms (i.e., hacked WordPress sites redirecting victims to Fake AV malware sites), so let's flesh it out a bit. (It's also […]

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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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