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Skype Malvertising Campaign Pushes Fake Flash Player

Skype ad pushing malicious download on Reddit and Twitter users. The malicious ads came to light after Reddit users complained about Skype forcing a Flash Player update. The ads pushed a file named FlashPlayer.hta, an HTML Application file. The content of this file was just a piece of obfuscated JavaScript code. The payload of the malicious ads was the following code: “Get the payload weobate and print the pretty-print and pretty-pretty-pretty

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