I don’t think it means what you think it means…

November 4, 2011 – 3:07 pm

Websites Hosting Android Trojans   By Armando Orozco and  Nathan Collier Rogue Android apps are making their way into alternative markets. Yes, we’ve seen some malicious apps trickle through and they can be elusive. But we’re now seeing markets that are only hosting malware. These rogues are of the premium rate SMS variety and request [...]

By Armando Orozco | Posted in Android, Mobile security, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Our Twitter Q&A with Threat Research Director Jeff Horne

December 15, 2009 – 12:18 pm

By Jeff Horne On December 11, 2009, users of Twitter submitted questions to Webroot’s Director of Threat Research, Jeff Horne, as part of a live Q&A session. Webroot’s Twitter followers asked questions about connecting safely to the Internet while traveling during the holidays. A variety of questions came in live, with some others through direct [...]

By jeffhorne | Posted in Mobile security, Passwords, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Roman Polanski Arrest Spawns Headline-Hooking Rogues

September 28, 2009 – 10:28 am

By Andrew Brandt and Brenden Vaughan As we’ve seen for the past several months, a celebrity ended up the top news story, which started a cascade of malware distributors racing to get their driveby pages to the top of search results. Today’s victim/subject is Roman Polanski, the renowned film director arrested on decades old charges [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Blackhat SEO, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Drive-by Downloads Still Pack a Punch – If You Click

June 24, 2009 – 9:25 am

By Andrew Brandt In the course of surfing around, looking for ways to get infected, I stumbled upon a site that offers visitors downloads of key generators, cracks, and other ways to circumvent the process used by most legitimate software companies to prevent people who didn’t pay for the software from registering or using it. [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

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 mguthrie09 | Posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Stepping up to the Loserbar

March 23, 2009 – 7:00 am

By Andrew Brandt Last year, we at Webroot (as well as many other people) saw a huge spike in two specific types of malware: Rogue antispyware products — the ineffective, deceptive kind — and the various tricks the companies that sell rogues use to trick you into downloading (and eventually buying) their bogus products, something [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment
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