Blog Comment Spam Points to Drive-By Site

July 9, 2010 – 3:07 pm

By Andrew Brandt I just want to take a moment to thank the malware author who posted a spam comment to the Webroot Threat Blog blog the other day. You guys make my job so easy. The spam comment, which reads Hello. I the beginner. I wish to show to you,scandal story and links to [...]

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Fakealerts: Building a Better Mousetrap

November 25, 2009 – 10:48 am

By Andrew Brandt In general, the use of fakealerts – those bogus warnings that look like your PC has started some sort of antivirus scan on its own, then predict imminent doom if you don’t buy some snake oil product right this minute — is on the rise. Fakealerts constitute a particularly effective social engineering [...]

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Jackson/Fawcett Malware is Extortion-ware

June 26, 2009 – 12:12 pm

By Andrew Brandt As I reported yesterday, searches for information about the deaths of Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett were turning up links to malware. This came as no surprise to anyone, though the speed with which the links spread was astonishing: Within minutes of the first confirmation that Jackson had succumbed to a heart [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Firefox, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (4)
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