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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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Pinterest spam promotes Acai Berry diet

02

Apr

2012

Sophos – Unless Pinterest gets serious about preventing spammers from abusing its systems, the problem is just going to get bigger and bigger.Today, for instance, we’re seeing Pinterest posts promoting an “amazing weight loss product”.The posts claim that the product is sponsored by Pinterest themselves, and doesn’t seem to care whether it uses an image […]

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On-Going Dynamic FakeAV Campaign

30

Mar

2012

Looking back on traffic from this week, I noticed a large spike in the number of companies accessing free TLD / Dynamic DNS related sites. Digging deeper it appears that a malware campaign tied to massive WordPress compromises was the culprit. This is a very widespread malware campaign that remains live / on-going and is […]

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