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UFC.com blacklisted by Google (indirectly)

July 31, 2010David Dede

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Anyone trying to visit the site UFC.com (from Google Chrome or Firefox) will get a big scary warning from Google:

UFC.com blacklisted

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!
The website at www.ufc.com contains elements from the site bin.clearspring.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.

They are getting indirectly blacklisted because they are loading content from bin.clearspring.com (an advertising network), which is currently blacklisted by Google for having malware.

As far as clearspring is concerned, it seems they’ve been hacked and the attacker has added malicious code to load malware from semaniseme.com and wenmo.in. So multiple levels of indirection here to affect UFC.com users.

Anyone else using clearspring should remove their code from their sites until they have this blacklist issue sorted out.

To avoid getting your site blacklisted or with malware, visit http://sucuri.net to learn about our site security monitoring and malware removal solutions.

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Categories: Security AdvisoryTags: Google, Website Blacklist

About David Dede

David is a Security Researcher at Sucuri. He spends most of his time dissecting vulnerabilities and security issues. You won't find him on Twitter because he is paranoid about privacy.

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  1. Steve

    August 1, 2010

    And more . .

    Several web sites I've visited today, including Time Magazine and Planet 107.3, are triggering a malware warning in Google Chrome:

    The website at http://www.planet93.com contains elements from the site bin.clearspring.com,
    http://watchingthewatchers.org/read/3630

  2. Justin Thorp

    August 2, 2010

    Hi, my name is Justin Thorp. I'm the Community Manager for Clearspring Technologies. So sorry about the issue that happened on Saturday morning. We're very committed to security and working diligently to make sure that something like this never happens again.

    If you'd like a full accounting of what happened, would suggest reading our latest blog post. – http://www.clearspring.com/blog/2010/08/02/saturd…

    E-mail me personally, if you have any specific questions. – justin@clearspring.com
    My recent post Saturday Morning’s CDN Issue

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