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The AVG Web Threat Research Group has put together a video on a Facebook clickjacking scam we recently found on Amazon's cloud site http://s3.amazonaws.com/. The "Big Baby Born Amazing Effects" scam, which purports to offer a webcam view of a birth, spreads through Facebook posts from those who have fallen for the trick. Curious Facebook users […]

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[A lot of travel recently has pre-empted work on the blog. Here is a cool post from Tim in our internal team blog a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been pestering him to do another in our "visualizing malware" series… –C.L.] As we have seen before (More Malicious Ads, Visualizing Malware Networks), malvertising enables the […]

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This past Tuesday, June 14, a vulnerability (CVE-2011-2110) in the Adobe Flash Player was patched. This vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild – prior to the patch, the earliest exploitation that we have seen in our logs thus far, dates back to early last Thursday (June 9th). Attackers have/are embedding redirects into compromised […]

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