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Google serves ad for Adware/Spyware

Jan

2012

Last year, we wrote about Bing and Yahoo! serving ads leading to malicious websites. This week, it was Google who inserted ads for adware/spyware. I found a suspicious ad in my Google Reader for a free FLV player. I’ve recently shown that this type of free software is regularly repackaged with adware/spyware for profit. The ad leads […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

New Year’s Wishes – with side order of data harvesting

Dec

2011

It’s almost end 2011. What with Christmas recently passed, and New Year coming up, there’s naturally a lot of well wishes and holiday greetings being messaged around. Looks like someone’s decided to join in (a little late) – and also do a bit of data harvesting at the same time. Spyware:Android/AdBoo.A appears to be one […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

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