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
    2018-06-22T23:18:00+00:00

    While using Edge and reading an MSN News (Edge Start Page) article titled “Mickelson’s wife says he offered to withdraw” a tech support scam popup appeared that was linked to the following url. 

    https://ss2.club/page/us/virus/virusKiller.php?clickid=20180618061855\_542\_GgG1o1Rz

    This occurred at appx 10:20 PM GMT June 17, 2018.  I was using only Windows Defender and I closed Edge without issue.  SE USA 5:20 PM CDST.

    No threats found by WD…

    I encountered the same fake virus warning; however, their website has different ID at the end. 

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-23T20:31:42+00:00

    YES and the virus dietotherapy.stream….is the culprit

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-24T13:39:02+00:00

    Hi all,

    I'm on the MSN Engineering team and would love help if anyone encounter this again. We've been tracking this since it started in mid February. We do quite a bit of work to scan the ads we get from our exchanges, but some behave differently for certain users than they do when we do our scanning. In the future, please continue to submit feedback so we can narrow the scans on our end and potentially reproduce and remove this once and for all. If your page was hijacked and you couldn't view the article, please mention the article headline you've visited as well. 

    If anyone is still experiencing this, please reply here. 

    Thanks,

    -Rodrigo (MSN Engineering)

    me me me help pz

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-24T18:08:11+00:00

    virus leftop

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-06-26T02:11:22+00:00

    Hi all,

    I'm on the MSN Engineering team and would love help if anyone encounter this again. We've been tracking this since it started in mid February. We do quite a bit of work to scan the ads we get from our exchanges, but some behave differently for certain users than they do when we do our scanning. In the future, please continue to submit feedback so we can narrow the scans on our end and potentially reproduce and remove this once and for all. If your page was hijacked and you couldn't view the article, please mention the article headline you've visited as well. 

    If anyone is still experiencing this, please reply here. 

    Thanks,

    -Rodrigo (MSN Engineering)

    me me me help pz

    me me me help plz!

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