Comments on: Fakealerts: Building a Better Mousetrap

By: Five Reasons You Should Always “Stop. Think. Connect.” « Webroot Threat Blog

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:03:25 +0000

[...] detailed in depth the lengths that some scam artists will go to convince you to hand over money willingly. The [...]

By: Newsflash: HTML Spammers are Not So Bright « Webroot Threat Blog

Newsflash: HTML Spammers are Not So Bright « Webroot Threat Blog — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:13:26 +0000

[...] the end, what I saw looked like an update to what has become the “classic” Javascript fakealert. Unfortunately for the malware distributors, this so-called update is laughably obvious. These are [...]

By: New Rogue Is Actually Five Rogues in One « Webroot Threat Blog

New Rogue Is Actually Five Rogues in One « Webroot Threat Blog — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:38:46 +0000

[...] in this melodrama, is no different from the many we’ve seen in the past 18 months which use a Javascript-enhanced Web page to convince viewers they’re watching a live malware scan on their computer. This trick is so [...]

By: Fakealerts Invade Google Image Search Results for ’24′ Star « Webroot Threat Blog

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:53:48 +0000

[...] Wersching, an actress who recently joined the cast of the TV show 24, we stumbled into one of these javascript-enabled fakealert browser traps. Oddly enough, when you click one of these bogus linked pictures in the Image Search results frame, [...]

By: ‘30 Rock’ Phrase ‘Circulus et Pruna’ Draws Fakealerts « Webroot Threat Blog

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:05:22 +0000

[...] a few, but every search result on the first page (and most of the second page of results) led to a Fakealert trap that tries to force victims into downloading and running the installer for a Rogue Antivirus [...]

By: Play it Safe on Safer Internet Day « Webroot Threat Blog

Play it Safe on Safer Internet Day « Webroot Threat Blog — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:33:41 +0000

[...] of all Internet users: Keylogging software disguised as “updates” are everywhere; Fake security alerts pop up when you least expect them; Phishing Web pages are more cleverly designed than ever to steal [...]

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:07:43 +0000

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