Microsoft is investigating claims that some Bing ads are redirecting users to malware

  Security firm ThreatTrack Security Labs today spotted that certain Bing ads are linking to sites that infect users with malware. Those who click are redirected to a dynamic DNS service subdomain which in turns serves the Sirefef malware from 109(dot)236(dot)81(dot)176. Update: Microsoft is investigating, see statement below. ThreatTrack notes that the scammers could of course be…

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Bing Malware Warnings Linger

It generally takes three to six weeks for a Bing malware removal label to go away, which is a lot longer than it takes for Google, which is days, and can at times be under 24 hours. Regardless, to find out that you’ve received a malware removal label, only to…

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Bing Malware Warnings Adds Salt To Wound

We know Bing takes 3-6 weeks for the malware removal label to disappear, which is much longer than Google’s malware removal process (which is days). But to give Bing credit, they had user access to Webmaster Tools years before Google did. In any event, can you imagine first finding out…

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Bing Malware Warnings Adds Salt To Wound

We know Bing takes 3-6 weeks for the malware removal label to disappear, which is much longer than Google’s malware removal process (which is days). But to give Bing credit, they had user access to Webmaster Tools years before Google did. In any event, can you imagine first finding out…

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Malicious ads make their way onto Bing and Yahoo

MALWARE DISTRIBUTORS have managed to get their rogue ads displayed on Bing and Yahoo when users search for popular software downloads. The paid links take users to web sites resembling those products’ home pages, but hosting malware instead. The malicious advertising, or malvertising, campaigns were detected by security researchers at…

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Yahoo, Bing Ads Serve Malware

Legitimate-looking ads on the search engines lead to malicious Web sites. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans Security Expert Gregory Evans on Cyber Crime

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