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1. MSN site redirects to Cool Exploit Kit Last weekend the AVG Web Threat Research group noticed a spike in LinkScannerR detections on an Italian language MSN page. The website contained an obfuscated redirect to another website running the Cool Exploit Kit and installing ransomware on users’ machines. In the screenshot below you see the […]

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Possibly the most common sham seen on social networking sites, survey scams have certainly figured prominently in this year’s Web threat story. Phishing scams aimed at sites like Facebook are also prevalent this year. Before we bid 2012 goodbye, we give you a rundown of some Facebook-themed scams and threats we saw during the last […]

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In this post I want to highlight one of the script injections we have been tracking for the past month or so, which is being used to redirect web traffic to exploit sites (running the Blackhole exploit kit). Two factors make this particular script injection worthy of discussion, namely: large scale attacks. Many legitimate sites […]

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