Malvertizing Attack Detected on ImageShack

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win7holic

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Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have intercepted a drive-by download attack on imageshack.us that was launched through a malicious advertisement.

The malvertizement was loaded from a [censored]mediagroup.com domain and served an exploit for an older vulnerability in Java that was patched in 2010 (CVE-2010-4452).

The attack was spotted by Kaspersky Lab expert David Jacoby while investigating a recemt hacking incident that involved images hosted on ImageShack.


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jamescv7

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Malvertizing these days, users must be warned cause many are visiting Imageshack for uploading pictures.
 

Jack

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As far as I can remember "thepiratebay.com" had a similar problem , and I do think that Imageshack also had a similar problem in the past..........This problem dosen't come from the site itself but from the advertise that they host....Nevertheless you ,as a site ,should always pay attention on what's going on in your garden.
-1 ImageShack
Anyway I've stoped using imageshack beacuse they site is slow and now it requires to be a member to get the "Direct Link".... using min.us ...much better:D
 
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