Topic: ALERT - Microsoft Advertising Network Is Serving Up Trojans (Read 1681 times)
legendary
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Reverse engineer from time to time
It's simply easy enough to block mtgox.org via the hosts file on Windows. It should be relatively easy to do under Linux as well.
Thanks for posting that!
If they designed Stuxnet to deal with Iran, imagine what they will do to stop competition to the banking system...
If they designed Stuxnet to deal with Iran, imagine what they will do to stop competition to the banking system...
Just a quick post so people know - data being collected here http://xena.ww7.be/wsj/story.txt (ne0futur's site)
(Original WSJ story with sponsored link, phishing site WHOIS)
Quick bullet points are:
Microsoft's small business ad network at - advertising.microsoft.com is serving up ads related to bitcoin and mtgox to many websites, including ones like the Wall Street Journal with sponsored links like "New Century Gold: BITCOIN Protect your money - Buy Bitcoin www.mtgox.org"
mtgox.org is a phishing site with a trojan binary in the signup link.
Please do not follow any links that resolve to mtgox.org for any reason.
(Original WSJ story with sponsored link, phishing site WHOIS)
Quick bullet points are:
Microsoft's small business ad network at - advertising.microsoft.com is serving up ads related to bitcoin and mtgox to many websites, including ones like the Wall Street Journal with sponsored links like "New Century Gold: BITCOIN Protect your money - Buy Bitcoin www.mtgox.org"
mtgox.org is a phishing site with a trojan binary in the signup link.
Please do not follow any links that resolve to mtgox.org for any reason.
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