Tag Archive for: Serving

Fourth-oldest dot-com domain now relegated to serving up scareware at $400 a victim

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Do not click on mcc … oh, wait, let’s not even create a link here, lest someone be tempted. Do not go there.

Founded in 1982, the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (safe Wikipedia link) was this country’s first computer research and development consortium. It was also the fourth organization of any kind to register a dot-com domain name, having done so nearly 30 years ago on July 11, 1985. MCC researched and developed until the year 2000.

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Mangaung website hacked, serving malware from Jamaica – MyBroadband

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MyBroadband

Mangaung website hacked, serving malware from Jamaica
MyBroadband
Add to this that Citizen Lab reported that it had discovered command & control servers for the spyware suite on the Telkom network in South Africa, and a logical first reaction is to suspect that a version of the FinSpy trojan was being hosted on the …

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Phys.Org Hacked, serving up malware? Google blocks site, but Bing doesn’t

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Starting this morning, if you tried to access Phys.org from either Chrome or Firefox, you were greeted with: Firefox also warned of Phys.org being an attack site and blocked access.
Ms. Smith’s blog

Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)

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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad  —  DoubleClick, the Google-owned ad technology, has been distributing malware in an online ad served through a number of websites, according to the security researcher who says he discovered the attack.  —  The malware infects users who visit …

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