Category Archives: hijack search results

Researchers intercept malvertising campaign using Yahoo’s ad network

February 25, 2012 – 2:26 pm

By Dancho Danchev Security researchers from StopMalvertising.com have intercepted a malvertising campaign using Yahoo’s ad network, that ultimately leads to a malicious payload in the form of fake security software known as scareware. More details:

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Five Summer Travel Security Tips

June 24, 2011 – 3:16 pm

By Andrew Brandt Ah, summer. Beaches, drinks with little umbrellas, 4th of July fireworks, baseball games, reading long cheesy novels in a lounge chair, teleconferencing with colleagues from your hotel room in Aruba. Wait, what? Yes, it’s true. It takes serious discipline to travel without schlepping along a laptop, smartphone, digital camera, MP3 player, portable [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mobile security, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (2)

Phishers Cast Their Nets in the Social Media Pool

June 21, 2011 – 8:23 am

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director It can seem at times that the only people who like change are Internet attackers. And they don’t just like it—they need it. Technology’s rapid changes give cybercriminals new attack vectors to exploit, and new ways to turn a profit out of someone else’s misfortune. Take phishing, for example. [...]

By imoyse | Also posted in Botnet activity, Keyloggers, phishing, Search engines, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | Comments (2)

Fake UPS Document Installs Fake Microsoft Patch Payload

June 17, 2011 – 8:12 am

By Andrew Brandt As if we didn’t have enough to deal with this week — after a Microsoft patch Tuesday that brought with it a boatload of security updates for Windows, Office, Silverlight, Visual Studio, and other programs — some enterprising malware distributor is emailing around bogus tracking number malware dressed up in the icon [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, Keyloggers, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

ROTW: “Total Security” and Antivirus IS

April 25, 2011 – 9:00 am

By Brenden Vaughan and Andrew Brandt This week, our support and advanced malware removal (AMR) team did not have a lot of new data to report about rogue security products. The most commonly encountered infection continues to be one of the rogues we reported about last week. While we may refer to it as XP [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Internet Explorer, mal-effects, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)

Spammed YouTube Comments Promote Adware – Successfully

March 8, 2011 – 3:43 pm

(Update, July 11, 2011:  On May 25, 2011, we were contacted by representatives of Future Ads, LLC, the parent company of both Playsushi and Gamevance.  Future Ads informed us that they, too, had been victims of a scam perpetrated by rogue affiliates who seemed to be involved with the malicious campaigns we described in this [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Search engines, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (5)

Shorty Worm Spams Links, Hijacks Browsers

March 4, 2011 – 9:51 am

By Andrew Brandt & Grayson Milbourne A novel worm we’re calling Worm-IM-Shorty appears to be winding its way through Facebook and some instant messaging services, with its come-on disguised as a link to a photograph hosted elsewhere. But when recipients click the link, they receive an executable Trojan instead, dressed up with the name and [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in adware, Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Search engines, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Tips to Avoid Tax Season Scams

January 28, 2011 – 7:01 am

By Jeff Horne, Director, Threat Research As tax season rolls around again in the US and UK, it seems like a good time to revisit the perils taxpayers face seemingly every year at around this time. Phishing attacks against taxpayers are already in full swing — not that they haven’t been going continuously since last [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Internet Explorer, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Google Results Tarnished Again to Push Rogues

January 15, 2011 – 3:48 am

By Andrew Brandt It’s been a few months since Google implemented new ways that it displays search results, and in that time, it’s been difficult to find the kinds of hijacked search results we saw in huge numbers a year ago. But if you thought the search engine manipulators were laying down on the job, [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans, Website owners | Leave a Comment
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