Tag: website
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VB2014 paper: Quantifying maliciousness in Alexa top-ranked domains
Paul Royal looks at malware served through the most popular websites. Though VB2014 took place nine months ago, most of the papers presented during the conference remain very relevant. Paul Royal’s paper ‘Quantifying maliciousness in Alexa top-ranked domains’ is no exception. Large websites serving malware through direct compromises or through compromises of the ad networks…
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Php.net compromised to serve malware
Researchers initially believed Google warning was a false positive. For a few days this week, the popular php.net website was serving malware to some of its visitors and was doing so in a stealthy way that initially confused researchers. There may be thousands and possibly millions of malicious websites on the Internet, but when you…
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Android malware served via compromised websites
Malware downloaded automatically, but requires user permission to be installed. Researchers at mobile security company Lookout have discovered a number of compromised websites that make Android devices automatically download (but not install) a malicious application. Drive-by downloads are a common threat to PCs and Macs: they are generally served through compromised websites and use unpatched…
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Researchers find many popular sites serving drive-by downloads
10 million people exposed to malware served by 25,000 most visited sites alone. Researchers at Barracuda Labs have found that 58 among the 25,000 most popular websites were serving drive-by download exploits at some time in February. The researchers used Alexa to determine the 25,000 most visited websites and scanned these sites during February. On…
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Mysql.com hacked, serving malware
Root access to site offered on black market. Yesterday, mysql.com, the official website of the popular database management system MySQL , was hacked and visitors to the website were at risk of being infected with malware. The hack of popular websites is nothing new, and with such sites serving as the shop windows of the…