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Facebook Turns to Websense for Malicious URL Detection

03

Oct

2011

Facebook has partnered with security vendor Websense to protect its users from third-party malicious URLs spammed on the social networking website, the companies said on Monday. Facebook has been plagued by malware distribution campaigns, survey scams and other types of threats for years now and despite the company’s best efforts the attacks continue. The site’s […]

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Bing, Yahoo! Search adverts serve up malware

17

Sep

2011

Overnight we saw a number of adverts being displayed in Bing that were directing end-users to malicious content. These adverts were promoting all manner of downloads including Firefox, Skype and uTorrent. Some of the search terms used: “FireFox Download” “Download Skype” “Download Adobe Player” As you can see, they’re not particularly complicated or unusual searches […]

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Win32/AdsLock – advertising content locking tool turned ransomware

02

Sep

2011

It is clear that breaking search engine rules and exploiting functionality to drive traffic and monetize content is a lucrative and extremely viable business for unethical or so called “blackhat” search engine optimization (SEO). We have recently seen another method of driving traffic and monetizing content that doesn’t involve directly serving malicious content via search […]

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