October 2009 - Posts

Blackhat SEO Aggressively Targets Halloween Related Keywords

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  28 October 09 01:00     Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have been hard at work in poisoning search results to increase traffic to their campaign sites. Today, we identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign, which is currently targeting Halloween related keywords aggressively.

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Blackhat SEO Campaign Targets 2009 Nobel Prize Winner

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  09 October 09 02:20     We’ve identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign today which targets President Obama as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner among a thousand or so other search terms. Clicking on a malicious search result yields the typical Rogueware campaign. Search

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Rogueware with new Ransomware Technology™

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  08 October 09 01:05     The criminals behind Rogueware attacks are becoming increasingly aggressive in their approach to make money. We recently stumbled across a sample ( Adware/TotalSecurity2009 ) which uses a ransomware technique to improve its sales. Once the computer becomes

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Rogueware distributors use Skype

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  05 October 09 12:41     Rogueware distributors are like the cockroaches of the Internet; they’re everywhere. Malicious search results, online advertisements, and iframe hijacked sites are the typical distribution methods, but every once in a while we come across an interesting

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Q3 report released

Posted by Luis Corrons at  01 October 09 09:51     We've just published our latest quarterly report. We'll show the different figures about malware in Q3, and some interesting articles. If you want to know what has happened in the last 3 months, which have been the most important Blakhat SEO attackes

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