Newsflash: HTML Spammers are Not So Bright

September 27, 2010 – 10:12 am

By Andrew Brandt It’s been more than a week that we at Webroot, and countless others, have been getting floods of bogus messages with HTML attachments. I thought I’d give the curious readers of this blog a quick glance at one of the drive-by sites that load in the browser if you try to open [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Downloaders, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Modified Websites Pushing Trojans On the Rise

April 21, 2010 – 10:46 am

By Andrew Brandt For the past couple of weeks, owners of Web sites have been hit with a wave of attacks that surreptitiously infect unsuspecting visitors with a wide variety of malware types. The first wave inflicted rogue antivirus on unlucky victims, but late last week victims who visited infectious sites were redirected into a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Destructive behavior, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)
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