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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

15

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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New fake antivirus spam hits Twitter

19

Apr

2012

What’s the story? A new wave of spam has hit the popular social network Twitter which pushes advertisements for a free and “proven” antivirus. The link is malicious and the antivirus is fake. So far over 500 Twitter accounts have clocked up over 4000 tweets of this spam message and that number is rising fast […]

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