Rogues Impersonate Google, Firefox Security Alerts

August 7, 2009 – 4:01 pm

By Andrew Brandt In the past week, we’ve begun to see new fakealerts — those disturbingly effective, entirely bogus “virus warning” messages — that appear to impersonate the appearance and text of legitimate warning dialogs you might see while surfing with the Firefox browser, or searching Google. The dialog, in a stern, red dialog box [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in adware, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (13)

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

May Threat Trend: Misleading Malware

June 9, 2009 – 11:11 am

By Andrew Brandt The latest data from our customers indicate that, at least in the month of May, we were blocking and removing some of the nastiest threats on the Web. Among the spies we took out, we hit Fakealerts and Rogue Security Products hard. These spies simply try to fool you into making purchases [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a Comment
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