Fakealerts: Building a Better Mousetrap

November 25, 2009 – 10:48 am

By Andrew Brandt In general, the use of fakealerts – those bogus warnings that look like your PC has started some sort of antivirus scan on its own, then predict imminent doom if you don’t buy some snake oil product right this minute — is on the rise. Fakealerts constitute a particularly effective social engineering [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

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 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Blackhat SEO, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (18)
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