We wrote about the adult site xtube.com being compromised, redirecting visitors to a landing page for the Neutrino Exploit kit last…
Month: March 2015
World Back Up Day: (File) Safety First
If your response to the question “When did you last back up?” is something to do with parking your car, then…
Phony My Team Voice App Being Spread on Steam Chat
We have come to know of a new Steam scam making rounds within the gaming community via a submission by one of…
Fake LightShot Website goes Typosquatting
From the “Now you see it, now you don’t” casefile – a website which until recently mimicked the look and feel of LightShot,…
A Week in Security (Mar 22 – 28)
Malwarebytes researchers found two noteworthy threats involving exploits: one was a malvertising campaign on a couple of high-profile sites and one…
Adware: Delivery Methods
What is adware? Adware is software, with the main goal to deliver advertisements to the user. Sometimes the means used by…
Steam Codes and Countdowns
The ever-present allure of something for nothing makes a reappearance in the land of gaming, with a twist designed to get would-be…
Adult site Xtube compromised, serving exploits
Our systems have detected infections coming from popular adult site Xtube, ranked #780 in the US and with an estimated 25 million…
Hanjuan EK’s ‘March Madness’ malvertising campaign
Update: The ad network, Engage:BDR terminated the malvertising account quickly after notification, on Monday at 10:32AM. We can confirm that this…
Scheduled Tasks
Many years ago, I wrote a little batch file to find and delete Scheduled Tasks added by an adware variant called…