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Is CyclingNews hacked? fake Flashplayer update

Mar 20, 2009
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I stopped this before it became a problem BUT:
This has happened twice in a week. CyclingNews is the only site that has done this to me. I can't say I'm immune to problems, that's only asking for trouble, but I pay a lot of attention and I use defenses against this kind of thing.

Twice while at CyclingNews my browser tab has been taken over without my intervention. The takeover was static. It opened a dialog box to download/open "FlashPlayer.exe" The two times it appeared had two different URLs. The second time I did mouseover on the help links and right click copy, they linked to an adobe.com site but I didn't test them.

I notified CyclingNews' parent company through their contact link the first time, and I will this time too.
 

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