Category Archives: Search engines

Outdated Operating System? This BlackHole Exploit Kit has you in its sights

October 31, 2011 – 11:50 am

By Mike Johnson Several weeks back, I was presented with a group of snapshots from an active BlackHole Exploit Kit 1.2 Control Panel. As with other toolkits I’ve seen in the wild, this one has all the makings of some real bad medicine. The authors have yet again gone to the trouble of making this toolkit incredibly easy [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Uncategorized, Firefox, Trojans, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, rootkit | Comments (4)

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, hijack search results, Keyloggers, phishing, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | 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, hijack search results, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (4)

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, hijack search results, Internet Explorer, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

February 15, 2011 – 9:22 am

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director The cloud delivery model gives vendors a great amount of power. It is easier to create, deploy, maintain and enhance a service than it has been at any other point in computing history. Just look at Facebook, which grew to 500 million members in a very short period of [...]

By imoyse | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Mobile security, phishing | Comments (2)

Five Reasons You Should Always “Stop. Think. Connect.”

October 4, 2010 – 9:27 am

By Andrew Brandt Today’s the official kickoff for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and the organizations supporting the event, including the National Cyber Security Alliance, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and dozens of corporate citizens including Webroot, want you to protect your computer and your personal information. So they’ve come up with a three word campaign [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Firefox, Gaming threats, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, malware, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | Comments (19)

New Rogue Is Actually Five Rogues in One

September 16, 2010 – 1:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt For years, the makers of those snake oil security programs we call Rogue Security Products have spent considerable effort making up new names, developing unique graphic design standards, and inventing backstories for their utterly useless, expensive scam products. Now a new rogue has taken this never ending shell game one step further, [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Blackhat SEO, Internet security industry, Ransomware, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (4)

Blackhat SEO of Google Images Links to Rogue AV

August 3, 2010 – 1:35 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yesterday, a few of the Threat Research folks and I had a little fun playing with a hack that had, for one day at least, pretty much decimated Google’s Image Search feature. One researcher, who stumbled into the attack purely by chance, found that a Google Images link to a map of [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Blackhat SEO, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Rogue Security Products, Safari, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (11)
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