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?RunForestRun?, ?gootkit? and random domain name generation

01

Aug

2012

Recently, we came across web malware that – instead of injecting an iframe pointing to a fixed existing address – generates a pseudo-random domain name, depending on the current date. This approach is not new and is widely used by botnets in C&C domain name generation, yet it’s not very common for the web malware we?ve seen […]

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Illegal TV Cards Allowing Free Olympic Viewing Sold Online

27

Jul

2012

We found a spam mail written in Japanese leveraging the Olympics to sell illegal products. We fully expected this event to be used by cybercriminals to profit. It appears that among the first to strike are sellers of B-CAS cards for TVs, which are supposed to allow the users to watch the Olympics without paying.These […]

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Be careful when typing URLs – A typing mistake when opening a popular website can lead to advertisements or put your local system in danger. Sometimes it is not easy to tell the difference.

18

Jul

2012

In the last two days we noticed that the domain facbook.de has been actively used to distribute bundles of Adobe’s Flash Player with browser toolbars that you may not want. The domain was registered in summer 2011 only as a parking domain. It now redirects to domains like "get-browser-update.com" or "get-flashplayer.com", where the original facebook.de […]

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?RunForestRun?, ?gootkit? and random domain name generation

Illegal TV Cards Allowing Free Olympic Viewing Sold Online

Be careful when typing URLs – A typing mistake when opening a popular website can lead to advertisements or put your local system in danger. Sometimes it is not easy to tell the difference.

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