A fake report that Kanye West died in a bizarre car crash in Los Angeles made its way onto the net yesterday evening sending hoards of users googling and twittering about it. Cybercrooks reacted promptly by hijacking search results on the subject and pushing scareware.The bogus report was apparently the work of 4chan... |
21 October 2009
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Security researchers warn that looking for information about a mysterious Facebook application called "Fan Check," which some people claim to be malicious, can lead to malware itself. Apparently, scareware distributors have adopted this trending topic for a new black hat search engine optimization campaign that promo... |
8 September 2009
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Given the increasing trend of cybercrooks using black-hat SEO techniques to push their malicious pages higher on search result pages, security researchers from global antivirus vendor McAfee decided to determine the most dangerous popular search keywords for 2008. According to their recently released report (PDF), co... |
28 May 2009
04:29 GMT |
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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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Security researchers from Sophos are warning that the Virtumondo computer trojan, which serves as a malware-distribution service, is now infecting computers via the Autorun feature. It makes its way onto USB sticks and other removable media devices with the help of a separate autorun worm. Virtumondo, also known as ... |
19 March 2009
05:37 GMT |
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