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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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British intelligence vandalizing extremist online magazines

02

Jun

2011

An article in the Washington Post reports that members of British intelligence vandalized an issue of the Inspire magazine. Inspire is the English-language lifestyle magazine of Al-Qaeda, published online in PDF format. They have published five issues so far. When the first issue was published last year, most jihadists ended up downloading a corrupted version […]

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Yahoo! Answers spoof delivers spam bot and Fake AV

11

May

2011

Yahoo! Answers is a community oriented site where Internet users ask and answer each other’s questions:There a couple hundred pages pushing this right now, although most them are getting cleaned up.The link redirects you to a fake Yahoo! Answers page hosted at answers-yahoo-z.tk where you can “download” (answers-yahoo-z.tk/answer.exe) your answer:Here is some background information on […]

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