Posts Tagged ‘pop ups’

“Browser Crashers” Hit Japanese Users

Mar

2013

We’ve spotted an uptick in a particular type of threat hitting Twitter uses in Japan. We call this threat the “browser crasher” after what it does: it causes the browser to “hang/crash”. To do this, the user has to be lured to visit a particular site with the JavaScript code. So long as the browser […]

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Rampaging Squirrel + Boyband = Twitter Spam

Oct

2012

Yesterday I saw a news article that did a frankly amazing job of rendering the plight of a boyband member being attacked by a squirrel, and mentioned it on Twitter. Within seconds, I was on the receiving end of some spam telling me I’d won a prize: Click to Enlarge Twitter users were spammed in […]

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Malicious script blocks browsers on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Oct

2011

Doctor Web’s engineers received a number of requests from iPad users who were troubled by blocking pop-up windows displayed as they visited certain sites in Safari and other browsers. Investigation into the problem revealed that pop-ups were brought up by malicious JavaScript code embedded into web-pages by criminals. Earlier Doctor Web issued a report about […]

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