The social engineering technique used in this attack takes form not on the World Wide Web, but on a flyer pinned on a car windshield. The URL stated in the flyers is inaccessible as of this writing. However previous reports have indicated that the page displayed images of several cars on parking lots, with the…
Read MoreA new development on the rogue antivirus campaign was recently discovered. It seems that the latest version of these rogue programs has found a new face. The current buzz is that this application is the latest rogue anti-spyware program victimizing unknowing users by extorting money from them by feeding on their worries of (non-existent) system…
Read MoreSeems like fake AV programs are still everywhere! Just a couple of weeks ago, Halloween costume searchers were targeted by these nasty programs through SEO poisoning. Now I’ve just encountered 2 scenarios resulting to rogue AV downloads, also done through hijacking Google search results: In the first scenario, queries for the string refa+zeitaufnahmebogen on the…
Read MoreWith Halloween just a few weeks away, you can bet everyone’s preparing. Kids, and also adults, are probably looking for the perfect costume they’ll wear to scare each other off in the spirit of the holiday. Unfortunately, just searching for the perfect costume might render users the victim of a quite more grave type of…
Read MoreOctober has just begun and Trend Micro threat researchers keep seeing more and more — slightly different, but yet increasingly more annoying — variations to the set of rogue AV infection signals we have been documenting on this blog. Figure 1. Fake BSOD (actually a screensaver) now sports a specific mention of the problem —…
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