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 and sold to advertising companies. If you see new […]
XM Radio Exposed domain: aboutstat.net XM Radio again Exposed domains: waytotheprofit.com/?cmpid=weannalist and officialstat.com/c/index.php, both of which are known malvertizement domains. waytotheprofit.com/?cmpid=weannalist leads us to an adverdaemon.com URL which then leads on to diskretter.com. adverdaemon.com is hosted by PEER1, with name servers supplied by none other than securehost in the Bahamas. Lots […]
perfectmatch.com Domains exposed: profitabill.com/?cmpid=cancrineso stat-diagnostic-imaging.net/c/index.php profitabill.com Hosted by Plusserver, Germany. Administrative contact is the infamous Serg Moon – WHOIS details are, of course, unhelpful. Note: WHOIS notes that registration services are provided by NameCheap.com, which shares IP indirectly via cnames with davidrohlf.com, georgerohlf.com, kristinerohlf.com and therohlfs.com. Registar is the well known Enom, Inc […]
First Choice in French (we have seen malvertizements featuring First Choice before – eg: this one in English) This malvertizement exposes a domain to us, waytotheprofit.com/?cmpid=atrecreant and click.adlbrite.com. adlbrite.com is hosted by nine.ch in Switzerland (yes, the same nine.ch that has hosted domains used by malvertizements in the past). click.adlbrite.com is also sharing name servers […]
Information courtesy of Intego, a company specializing in security products for the Mac. Intego has released a security memo describing a trojan horse for the Mac – a poker game that, when run, harvests the username, password and IP address of the victim and transmits it to a server, as well as enabling ssh on […]
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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 second half of 2007, the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), on average, removed malware from 1 out of every 204 Windows-based computers it was executed […]
I have received a copy of a new malvertizement featuring gifttree.com. Analysis reveals two malicious URLs, being: waytotheprofit.com/?cmpid=itlocationstation-appraisals.com/c/index.php? The waytotheprofit.com URL leads us to an adnetserver.com URL which in turns leads us to a german language fraudware site, being diskretter.com (which, by the way, shares IP with A-records and mail servers with several domains including […]
Details here:http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/06/16/houston-we-have-a-problem.aspx Update: We’ll be offline until as late as Friday:http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/06/16/offline-for-a-couple-of-days.aspx
I am pleased to announce that I have joined Truste as an Online Compliance Researcher. The Press Release is here:http://www.truste.org/about/press_release/06_12_08.php I am very excited about this new opportunity. It has always been my dream to be able to focus all of my energies on studying, and tracking down the distributors of, spyware and malware and […]