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Here it is: The malvertizement, if triggered, redirects victims to the URL windowsxp-privacy.net/?id=987650085. That URL, if a malicious redirect is not triggered, simply dumps the victim at Google. windowsxp-privacy.net is hosted in Russia, with mail services supplied by estboxes (Intercage) and is registered via Estdomains.
The malvertizements discovered on Yahoo are STILL there… Moli.com is still displaying malvertizements as well
Kimberley found these ones – full information here:http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=ae5aae56f29889c26c465d6f3aa4e9c1&showtopic=18064&st=30&p=87072&#entry87072 atlas-ads.com is registered using the infamous Estdomains, and if you try to visit the domain you are automatically redirected to the Microsoft owned atlassolutions.com – but don’t be fooled – atlas-ads.com has nothing to do with Microsoft. The appropriate parties have been notified. Malvert 1 – featuring […]
Earlier I posted an alert that ReachWe (reachwe.com) has been caught distributing malvertizements. Kimberley has written about another advertising service that shares IP with reachwe.com – P-mediaonline.com – discussed here:http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=18064&pid=87048&mode=threaded&show=&st=30&#entry87048 reachwe.com and p-mediaonline.com have the same Flash navigation on the opening pages. P-mediaonline.com was created on 4 April 2008; reachwe.com was created on 6 December […]
Edit: the malvertizements have been removed from circulation . And still the problems continue…. I wonder how many hits Yahoo gets per day, and how many people are being exposed to fraudware, while these advertisements are allowed to remain online…
Cite this discussion:http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?p=178973 There are three complaints about malicious advertisements being supplied by ReachWe in that discussion. You’ll note that somebody who claims to be from Yahoo posted a comment to that discussion on 16 April claiming to have been supplied malvertizements by ReachWe. Yet here we are, seeing malvertizements on Yahoo sites even now. […]
Edit: the malvertizement has been removed from circulation And another one – the URL for this one is: eur.a1.yimg.com/java.europe.yimg.com/eu/any/yahoonew300x250.swf Even if you don’t get redirected, the malvertizement still let’s the bad guys know that it is on display by sending info to adtds2.promoplexer.com/statsa.php?campaign=yahoo and adsraise.com/mbuyers/statistics.html Yahoo is one of the few companies where I *don’t* have […]
Edit: the malvertizement has been removed from circulation Here it is at Yahoo Mail: