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DIRECTI responds to my complaint about the impersonation of domains/businesses

As you can see from their email, DIRECTI advise that they suspended prolinar.com on 19 January for “Inaccurate whois details”. It should be noted that I reported on 16 January that prolinar.com had already disappeared from its previous IP address, and not reappeared with a new IP. ...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Jan 20 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
ALERT: Please treat all content from topstarmedia.net and osmedlin.com with extreme caution - do we find DIRECTI? Yes we do!

I received an email alert today reporting that topstarmedia.net is supplying JavaScript code for advertising campaigns as follows: osmedlin.com/?id=<<removed>> To quote my correspondent, topstarmedia’s approach had "ll the hallmarks- 5 figure budget, launch on a Friday, immediately,...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Fri, Jan 16 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
Glowing brain malvertizement – and, once again, we find DIRECTI

Adopstools results: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=26gBv5P94L5CW849 Touches the domain adclickmate.net Registrar: DIRECTI (yet again) Created 24 March 2008 NS1.ADCLICKMATE.NET NS2.ADCLICKMATE.NET IP: 212.95.37.133 - Germany, Netdirekt WHOIS hidden behind privacy...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Jan 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
Potential malvertizement featuring the Disney movie “Bolt”

Adopstools results: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=YNgNHCUFU1pAgA94

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Jan 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
Directi Internet Solutions strikes again

I ask you – just how obvious does the impersonation of a legitimate company have to be before Directi notices and stops a site from going live *before* it can do harm??? quigley-simpson.net Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS Created 17 December 2008 NS1.EVERYDNS.NET NS2.EVERYDNS.NET NS3.EVERYDNS.NET...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Mon, Jan 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
ALERT: traffichunter.net and traffichunters.net – spot the similarities to Olympic Media

I think it is fair to say that all content from traffichunter.net and traffichunters.net should be treated with extreme caution. First of all, I received an email warning me that there are remarkable similarities between the Olympic Media web site and the Traffic Hunter(s) web site (and we already know...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sun, Jan 4 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
Developments in the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

Daniel Sundin, Maurice D'Souza, Innovative Marketing Inc, ByteHosting Internet Services LLC and James Reno are still unrepresented. Sam Jain is represented by Robert D Luskin and Edward S Wisneski of Patton Boggs. Marc D'Souza is represented by Russell D Duncan of Orrick, Herrington &...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Fri, Jan 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Malvertizing
ALERT: malicious content (including malware via security exploit) seen via MySpace chat

Kimberley reports on the incident . Userplane is a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL (yes, I have written to my contacts there), and Kimberley is getting in touch with the appropriate people at MySpace to try and get this shut down ASAP. Some important notes for the curious. The advertisement itself...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Dec 31 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
ALERT: malvertizement featuring Talbots

Adopstools results: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=RC567srdR4afU35z The malicious ad hits two URLs: freegreenstats.com /c/index.php?id=<<snipped>> (79.135.187.95) and statisticsmanager.com /?cmpid=<<snipped>> (76.74.249.30) cookie dropped for adnetserver...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Thu, Dec 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing
Developments in the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

Well well, people have been busy. Various documents were filed on the 17th, including: Entry of Appearance on behalf of Mark D'Souza by Counsel Russell D Duncan of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Entry of Appearance on behalf of Sam Jain by Counsel Edward Wisneski of Patton Boggs A joint Response...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Thu, Dec 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Malvertizing
Developments in the FTC v Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

"We sometimes forget that Justice wields a sword..." My regular readers will recall that the temporary restraining order won by the FTC expired on 12 December 2008 at 6.15pm, and that each individual, corporate and relief defendant was ordered to appear before the Court at 3.30pm on that same...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Dec 17 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Malvertizing
ALERT: Koeppel Interactive being impersonated?

It has come to my attention that malvertizements are being sold to web sites by people using the domain koeppelinteractive.co.uk . I'll quote a representative of the site who was stung by somebody representing koeppelinteractive.co.uk - they were sold malvertizements that immediately started hijacking...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Dec 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing

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