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AVG Web Threat Update: Week 16

25

Apr

2012

1. Spreading the Blackhole love on Twitter The AVG Web Threats Research team found this little landmine on Twitter in the last week. We suspect it was planted by a Blackhole operator. Clicking on the “free Antivirus” link takes you to the nearly inevitable: And, if an unsuspecting Twitter user is innocent enough to click […]

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AVG Web Threat weekly update: US.gov site serving rogues, Flash updates and exploits

30

Mar

2012

AVG analysts spotted a script-injection hack on web site of the District of Columbia, USA. The malicious change to the Web page takes visitors to a variety of malicious downloads. The USA capital Washington is in the District of Columbia. The intruders put script on the page that lists the D.C. “Directory of Agencies and […]

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AVG Web Threat Update: Week 12

22

Mar

2012

1. Email messages impersonating LinkedIn correspondence used as lure to Blackhole sites Blackhole users have begun using phishing emails that impersonate correspondence from the professional networking site LinkedIn to trick users into going to Blackhole Exploit Kit sites. The links in the phishing emails take the users to an exploit server. Email subject lines include: […]

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