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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 | Posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, hijack search results, Search engines, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: bit.ly, bittorrent, Contactprivacy.com, fake video, isohunt, LeechTV, leechtv.com, the complête leekêd-film, the social network, this entîre leekêd-movìe, Tucows.com, YouTube | Comments (5)

Civilization 5 Torrent Bonus: Uncivilized Malware

September 25, 2010 – 12:56 pm

By Andrew Brandt Bootlegged copies of Civilization 5, the highly anticipated, just-released real time strategy game, are already popping up in file sharing services. And, as we’ve come to expect, some of the pirated copies of the game come with that little something special — malicious components. One of our Threat Research Analysts, who also [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, Keyloggers, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: 2f7ff2ecef4b5cf1c9679f79d9b72518, 6cf871199432f0dd9a669427f58155db, Albert1, Albert2, application data\microsoft, bittorrent, Civ 5, civ 5 torrent, Civilization 5, civilization 5 torrent, 문명5 readme before, my-slide-show-picture.exe, read me before burn.exe, torrent, TRxGM, window update | Comments (8)

Starcraft 2 Launch Day Piracy Infects Eager Gamers

July 29, 2010 – 2:46 pm

By Andrew Brandt While some members of our Threat Research group are attending talks at the Black Hat Briefings, the rest of the team is back at our offices, hard at work watching for novel threats. That’s good news for gamers, and bad news for malware distributors who might try to take advantage of a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, Gaming threats, malware, PC gaming, phishing, social engineering, Threat Research | Tags: bittorrent, SC2, SC2 torrents, Starcraft, Starcraft 2, Starcraft II, TRxGM, Wings of Liberty | Comments (8)

Adware client tags you as its pitchman

May 21, 2009 – 3:11 pm

By Andrew Brandt Over the past week, someone has been spamming the file sharing site ThePirateBay.org with comments advertising a new “product” called BittorrentBooster. According to the site’s administrators, the spammer used a large number of fraudulently registered accounts to post the messages as feedback, attached to hundreds, possibly thousands, of downloadable .torrent files, which [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: adware, bittorrent, bittorrentbooster, thepiratebay, torrent | Comments (9)

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