Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware

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Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware 146

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 10, 2013 @05:39PM from the which-is-worse-malware-or-av-nagware dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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. ThreatTrack notes that the scammers could of course be targeting other keywords aside from YouTube. The more popular the keywords, the bigger the potential for infection."

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