GFI Vipre: Another round of bad ads in Bing

September 22, 2011
GFI Vipre

We’re seeing some more bad adverts popping up in Bing – just like the original attack, these results are served with very basic search terms so it’s pretty easy to stumble into one of the bad URLs. The results below appear when searching for “Flash player download”:

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In the below example, the end-user arrives at malaysiaaktif(dot)com/flash and the fake Flash Player file is served up from dl-softonic(dot)net (a slight change from the original URL used to push the files which flatlined a few days ago):

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This excerpt is shared with permission from GFI Vipre.

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