Chelsea Clinton BlackHat SEO attack
We want to warn you of a new BlackHat SEO attack that we have detected and that aims at distributing rogueware. Be careful when you search for information about Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of President Bill Clinton, who has been in the news recently due to her recent wedding, as you can fall into the [...]
Dissecting a BlackHat SEO attack
Each and every day we see new black hat SEO attacks, where criminals poison search engine results to spread malware. Today we were researching yet another attack, with some world cup terms targeted: When clicking on one of these malicious results, you go to a Youtube-like web: As usual, it will tell you that you [...]
Extreme sports: 2010 FIFA World Cup BHSEO attack
The football lovers all know that next Friday, June 11, the 2010 FIFA World Cup is starting in South Africa. The problem is that the criminals also know that, and of course they’ve decided to take advantage of that. We have just seen a new BlackHat SEO attack, so when using Google search engine to [...]
Out of the frying pan, into the fire…
…or as it is popularly said, at least, in Spain: “From Guatemala to Guatepeorâ€. As if things weren’t bad enough in Central America after the dramatic consequences that the Agatha storm had in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, cybercrooks are taking advantage of the news about the misterious sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala city, in [...]
Follow-up on rogueware
This is nothing new, but to make a quick follow up on Olaiz’s previous post, I’m a bit ByteDefender. I am always impressed with the way these cybercrooks create a name for their rogueware. Let’s take a look at some of the samples captured and published o autovin website. Name: MalwareCatcher First Seen: Fri Mar [...]
I’m a bit ByteDefender
We want to warn you of a new rogueware that is being distributed. This is nothing new, as we see new samples of rogueware day in day out. The name of this rogueware is very similar to a legitimate antivirus program, so that it can be mistaken with a real antivirus solution. In this case, [...]
Lost, Ronnie James Dio, and so on and so forth, to distribute rogueware
It seems that false antivirus have found in the BlackHat SEO attacks a usual means to be distributed. That’s the case of the rogueware MySecurityEngine which is using a varied medley of subjects, some of them arousing people’s interest, like the successful series Lost, whose final episode will be on 23rd of this month, or [...]
Making new friends…
I’m very happy because I’ve received a greeting card via email from a new friend, thought it’s not my birthday, my saint’s day or anything like that Look what a nice card I’ve received: Besides, it has been sent from 123greetings, which is a legal website to download and send cards, so it must be [...]
An explosive cocktail: MySecuWaloader
In this post we are going to prepare a cocktail using 4 ingredients. We’ve called it MySecuWaloader. Now you’ll find out why. First of all, put into the cocktail shaker a BlackHat SEO attack together with a sample of rogueware and see the result: If you search for any the following group of keywords related [...]
False positive to distribute false antivirus, isn’t it ironic?
Any excuse is a good excuse to distribute malware… this is what cyber-crooks may think, as they have used McAfee false positive to carry out BlackHat SEO attacks. In fact, if you make a search using any of the following group of keywords, you’ll probably be surprised: Mcafee Update Mcafee Virus Mcafee 5958 Mcafee Virus [...]
