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Yet another malvertizement at Yahoo Mail…

April 26th 2008 in Uncategorized

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 a high level contact  :o(

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Edit: the malvertizement has been removed from circulation 
Here it is at Yahoo Mail:

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