Posts Tagged ‘Malware’
The excellent malwaredomains.com highlights a story coming from James McQuaid at securehomenetwork.blogspot.com about a potential huge malware attack. The article describes a huge SEO malware campaign utilizing thousands of machine-generated domains combining black hat SEO poisoning with virulent malware infections. http://securehomenetwork.blogspot.com/2011/01/massive-blackhat-seo-malware-campaign.html It occurs to me that the timing is very apt. As we head towards [...]
Kaspersky is reporting that it’s AntiVirus solution is flagging Google Adsense ads as being infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar but which in fact are false-positives. The error message looks like this “The requested object is infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar” Here’s what they have to say about the mater: “Kaspersky Lab acknowledges a false positive [...]
A number of years ago I had a meeting with OneVision, a company used in newspaper/print for pre-production/press Quality Assurance amongst others things. At the time we were looking at trying to resolve issues with badly coded flash ads, where the clickTag() hadn’t been set properly or been set to CLICKTAG() or cLiCKTag() or some [...]
Mcafee are reporting that Adobe Reader and Flash are to be prime targets for criminal hackers next in 2010. This on the back of this report: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/mass_flash_file_vulnerability/ and http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/ My personal take on this is that yes, it could be used as a potential XSS but invariabaly it would have meant that the original 3rd [...]
