Users Report Malicious Ads On Skype

Several users report that Skype they were seeing in the use of the popular VoIP software malicious ads to a fake Adobe website creature that tried to install malware. According to the malicious website, the user must update their Flash Player.

In reality, it was malware. Users wonder how the ads could pass the filters of Microsoft. The software giant has not yet responded to the ads, though a Skype employee on the Skype forum to affected users asking whether they have a " Fiddler trace can make. " This would help to find the malignant advertisement in question.

It would not be the first time that Skype is the target of "malvertisement". Last year, the Dutch security researcher Yonathan Klijnsma did know that he had found on Skype malicious ads. A problem with the ads on Skype is a "AdBlocker" that users use their browsers not working for these ads.

'SoakSoak' Malware Infected 100,000+ Wordpress Websites

At over 100,000+ WordPress sites researchers have found malicious code that attempts to infect visitors with malware. The code is loaded from the Russian domain SoakSoak. Google would now more than 11,000 infected websites have put on a blacklist.

Visitors who use Firefox or Chrome receive when visiting these WordPress sites a warning that the site contains malware. According to security firm Sucuri is the number of affected sites much larger and would amount to more than 100,000 WordPress installations. Also on the forum WordPress complain many users SoakSoak on their website.

How the attackers managed to get the malicious code on the WordPress sites is still unknown, but it is suspected that the sites a vulnerable version of the WordPress Slider Revolution use premium plugin. By September WordPress sites with a vulnerable version of the plug-in even though the target of attacks.