I’m seeing Trojan:JS/Flafisi.D detections and Tech Support Scams on the Edge browser Start page

Anonymous
2018-02-28T16:36:56+00:00

Update: A member of Microsoft's MSN Engineering Team (RodrigoLode(MSFT) has responded to acknowledge the malvertising issues associated with MSN portal. They have also requested ***" If anyone is still experiencing this, please reply here."***For more specifics on information requested please refer to the reply from Rodrigo at the following link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_defender-protect_scanning-windows_10/im-seeing-trojanjsflafisid-detections-and-tech/8fbe8eaf-1af0-4e76-9ab0-57828f631a5f?page=7&messageId=3661a31c-2019-4808-a88b-283919038cc1

In addition to reporting the fake pop-ups themselves I would advise that you take note if there is a significant loss of performance on computer after encountering, in particular, the fake Adobe Flash Player update. If things seem sluggish you may have been subject to one of the more prevalent malicious activities known as crypto-mining/coin mining.

Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/03/13/invisible-resource-thieves-the-increasing-threat-of-cryptocurrency-miners/

Especially important to report these occurrences or any other odd behaviors after using MSN website.

Moderator Edit: Provided update.

Just reading the “Comey trolls Trump” article on the Edge Start page and this pops up:

 This one was easy to handle because it was just the old-fashioned dialog loop based scam:

– but what’s coming next Microsoft?

GreginMich

[Original Title: Surprised again]

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Security and privacy

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-17T16:43:45+00:00

    I would do a full scan through Defender again. If nothing shows up, you're probably in good shape.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-17T17:26:02+00:00

    RichW44 - could you please go to any article page on MSN and submit a piece of feedback? To do that, in the article, scroll just a bit down until the "Feedback" button shows up on the bottom right corner for the page. Click and submit the feedback with the following text: "red warning popup; trojan virus". I'll add that info to the set my team is investigating. 

    Thank you!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-18T09:40:34+00:00

    I have just bought a brand-new computer with Windows 10 on it.  Today, I went online and clicked on an article about the East Bay fault.  On the top of my browser, a message stating that Windows had blocked Adobe Flash for my protection popped up.  A moment later, I was redirected to a page suggesting that I install Flash.  I quickly exited the page.  Seconds later, Windows Defender notified me that I had a threat on my computer, and it was JS/Flafisi.D

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-04-18T09:47:09+00:00

    By the way, the article was from the LA Times.

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