Postmortem Michael Jackson Track Dredges Rogues

October 12, 2009 – 10:47 am

By Andrew Brandt As we’ve discussed so many times in the past, search terms that include the names of celebrities make good targets for malware authors, and search terms that include the name of dead celebrities make great targets for malware authors. Now there’s a new corollary to this postulate: Search terms that include the [...]

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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 [...]

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Our Cup Runneth Over with Farrah Fawcett Files and Michael Jackson Malware

June 25, 2009 – 4:42 pm

By Andrew Brandt With the sad news circulating the globe that 70s sex symbol, TV pitchwoman, and former Charlie’s Angel Farrah Fawcett passed away this morning, it didn’t take long for the malware vultures to execute their attack. Beginning in the afternoon, our Proactive Research team began finding tons of pages that purportedly offered a [...]

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