An analysis of compromised websites used in black hat SEO campaigns, performed by cloud security vendor Zscaler, suggests that weakeneses in share hosting platforms are the most common attack vector.The Zscaler researchers inspected around 1,100 websites hijacked by spammers and used to redirect visitors to scareware... |
8 December 2010
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Security researchers warn that the recent, total solar eclipse has been used by cybercrooks as an opportunity to infect unwary users with rogueware. People searching for the keywords “solar eclipse 2009 in America” are most likely to stumble over malicious pages. The total solar eclipse that took place t... |
24 July 2009
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In their attempt to profit from the recent Leighton Meester leaked tape scandal, malware distributors have resorted to their usual blackhat search engine optimization tricks. Unfortunately, this also affected former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, when one of the spam messages spreading a computer trojan ended up on h... |
25 June 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that cybercriminal gangs are taking advantage of the Air France flight 447 tragedy. Trying to exploit the significant public interest attracted by the sad event, cybercrooks are pushing spam and malware, both by e-mail and poisoned search results. Air France Flight 447 refers to the commerc... |
12 June 2009
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Malware analysts from various security vendors warn that cyber crooks are capitalizing on the general public's interest into the deadly swine flu epidemic. Swine flu spam has started filling e-mail Inboxes aggressively at the beginning of this week, most of it pushing fake meds. With the number of swine flu dea... |
28 April 2009
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Security researchers warn that malware distributors are profiting from people's interest in the Easter holiday and, apparently, the Ford Motors Company, in order to push malware. Search engine results for keywords related to the two were poisoned with pages that pushed rogue security programs. Promoting malicio... |
14 April 2009
09:09 GMT |
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The untimely death of English actress Natasha Richardson has been heavily exploited by malware distributors who have created fake websites filled with keywords related to the incident. The pages have been part of a scareware advertising campaign. Natasha Richardson was an award-winning actress, better known for her p... |
20 March 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Security researchers from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro are warning about the fairly new trend of poisoning Google video search results. An estimated 400,000 search queries have returned rogue results pointing to malware. Cyber criminals have been using blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to poison s... |
2 February 2009
06:46 GMT |
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