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Announcement: the FTC goes after those behind "Winfixer" fraudware

The FTC has announced that it has filed a lawsuit targeting the miscreants behind the fraudware/scareware commonly known as "Winfixer". The FTC are suing Innovative Marketing, Inc ., also d/b/a Billingnow , BillPlanet PTE Ltd ., Globedat , Innovative Marketing Ukraine , Revenue Response , Sunwell...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Dec 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: safety and privacy on the Internet
Malvertizing at variety.com?

Cite: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=612707351ed6b298&hl=en I disagree with the theory being espoused by some in that thread (that the site is hacked and/or htaccess has been manipulated). This is because: the thread author is complaining that the redirects are occurring...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Dec 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, safety and privacy on the Internet
ALERT: treat all content from Olympic Media (olympicmedia.net) with extreme caution

Olympic Media has been caught distributing malvertizing ... again ( thanks to Kimberley for the heads up ). Why do I say again? Because a usatoday representative posted to my blog back in September claiming that Olympic Media had sold them a malvertizement . Anyway, back to present day. This time Olympic...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Dec 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, safety and privacy on the Internet
ALERT: Two malvertizements seen at Spaces (not skydrive) and Hotmail...

Edit: BTW, it is Spaces and Hotmail - I haven't seen the malvert at Skydrive yet. Kimberley saw the first one, a malvertizement featuring perfectmatch.com: I have discovered another malvertizement featuring IMIN - we have seen this advert several times in recent days in different places: Details...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Nov 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: January through June 2008

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report for the period covering January through June 2008 has been released. Executive Summary Full report Key findings summary The full report is a hefty 150 pages long. I have only had time to take the briefest of glances at it, and even then I have focused only on...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sat, Nov 1 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
SWF for malware deployment

Mea culpa: Marian is apparently male, not female. Marian Radu of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center has written about SWF being used for malware . She He states: " What I found out is that, excluding flash exploits, SWFs are mainly used as redirectors " Yep, we know this ... that is why...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Fri, Oct 31 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
Atrivo/Intercage have been knocked offline again?

Surprise surprise. Screenshot taken just a few minutes ago... http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595&v=4&view=2.0

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Thu, Sep 25 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet
Hold fire on Fuse Kit....

Moses Gunesch, the author of Fuse Kit, has posted a comment to my blog here: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/17/1644872.aspx#1644983 I may have to eat an awful lot of humble-pie if I have misunderstood the capabilities and features of Fuse. I always hate, with a passion, getting...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Mon, Aug 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
ALERT: Firefox with NoScript does NOT ALWAYS protect from SWF clipboard hijacks

Topic subjected edited to add the word "always". I stand by my statement that there are users out there who believe that "NoScript" will protect them from incidents like the clipboard hijack, even when they have disabled "Forbid Flash", and need to be told that this is not...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sat, Aug 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
ALERT: malvertizement at newsweek.com (hosted by washingtonpost.com)

Edit: Please review this article re Fuse: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/19/1644991.aspx Once again, it is a malvertizement created using Fuse Kit. Again, there are signs that the malvertizement came from the now defunct trackstarmedia. Kimberley has all the details at her forum...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Fri, Aug 15 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
ALERT: malvertizement featuring cardstore.com

Edited to fix typos - changing cardshop to cardstore - (it had been a *long* day) I finally got a sample of the malicious advertisement featuring cardstore.com: Interesting points to bear in mind about this incident are: The malvertizement was received from the currently defunct trackstarmedia.com. The...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Aug 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
ALERT: malvertizement from trackstarmedia.com (domain suspended)

I have just received word that a malvertizement featuring cardstore.com has been discovered. The distributor of the malvertizement is, according to my contact, trackstarmedia.com I'll post further information, and screenshots, as it comes to hand. Thumbnail of trackstarmedia.com page, courtesy of...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Aug 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
ALERT: Watch out for new malvertizements featuring ETRADE

Edited to fix title...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Aug 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
Neowin.net announces a new version of Spybot Search & Destroy, but.....

Neowin says : "Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications . Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sun, Jun 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (July through December 2007) - Key Findings Summary (Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and Norway)

Downloadable here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=671355c2-4002-4671-8619-95c96c8a897f&displaylang=en&tm The worldwide average was malware removal from 1 out of every 123 Windows-based computers in the second half of 2007. Summary - Australia During each month in the...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sun, Jun 22 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
New malvertizements featuring diamondharmony.com

Screenshot of diamondharmony.com malvertizement

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Fri, Jun 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
Press Release: Attorney General McKenna’s new laws go into effect Thursday

The full press release is below. The section most relevant to this blog is the new laws related to spyware. A change that I anticipate will have a great impact is that the new laws " Create liability for web hosting services who ignore violators’ use of their products " . I believe that this...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Jun 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Technology, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet
ALERT: Malvertizements at disney.fr

These criminals, whoever they are, have absolutely no shame. I thought that they were the scum of the earth when they impersonated Oxfam; now they are getting their malvertizements onto popular chidren's sites. As reported by Kimberley - the malvertizements have been reported to RealMedia: openad...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Jun 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
ALERT: Adobe Flash Player SWF File Unspecified Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Affected versions are 9.0.124.0 and 9.0.115.0. The best analysis that I've seen so far is at SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29386/info The frightening thing about this alert is that the vulnerability is being actively exploited, with tens of thousands of web sites being compromised...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, May 28 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
A new look dottunes malvertizement

A new style Dot Tunes advertisement: The adopstools results are here: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=r60Siyiw02bZgpaa When the SWF is displayed on a system it hits the following URLs: traveltray.com/crossdomain.xml and traveltray.com/stats.php?u={{removed}}&campaign=ofdidactic...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, May 27 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

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