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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 (Weblog) by sandi on Thu, Dec 11 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Dec 10 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Dec 10 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Nov 19 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Sat, Nov 1 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Fri, Oct 31 2008
    Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • 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 (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, Aug 18 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Sat, Aug 16 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Sat, Aug 16 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Thu, Aug 14 2008
    Filed under: Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
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