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TSA website link leads to Blackhole exploit kit

01

Jun

2012

The AVG Web Threats research group has detected an obfuscated redirect on a page belonging to a vendor listed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) web site. Visitors following the link on a TSA page were also served exploits via a Blackhole exploit kit. AVG personnel alerted TSA and the vendor to the problem […]

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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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Multiple hijacking

27

Apr

2012

Vulnerable websites are regularly hijacked to redirect users to malicious domains. The most popular type of of malicious page are Fake AV pages. Attackers commonly increase traffic to these hijacked websites using Blackhat SEO techniques. Blackhat SEO requires that two different pages be delivered to different audiences: A harmless spam page to the Googlebot and […]

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