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
    2018-08-04T17:30:30+00:00

    لقد قمت بتشغيل برنامج malware bytes ولا يزال الحصول على rasonware ... لقد أبلغت 19 مرة بدون أي مساعدة

    malware bytes does not find it

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-04T05:10:12+00:00

    لقد قمت بتشغيل برنامج malware bytes ولا يزال الحصول على rasonware ... لقد أبلغت 19 مرة بدون أي مساعدة

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-01T16:07:21+00:00

    Hi all,

    I haven't forgot about you. The ads causing this have been extremely sneaky in hiding their tracks. They're very targeted to some users who are more likely to keep getting once they get it. Continue sending feedback as it helps and it gives me more metadata to go after the source of the problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-01T15:10:42+00:00

    Hi Frank. You haven't added a comment for Rodrigo.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-01T11:06:16+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)

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