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Big Fake-AV Attack Rolls On…

25
Apr
2012

Another item in the post-vacation queue for the blog is an update on the big Fake AV attack we posted about at the beginning of the month. From last Friday's logs, I pulled data on one sample server. Here's what it had been up to: – 2400+ URLs in the week from 4/13 (when it […]

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Tracking a Large Fake-AV Campaign

04
Apr
2012

Time for a quick blog post on an attack we've been following for several weeks now. I've seen a few news articles and blog posts that could be describing it, at least in general terms (i.e., hacked WordPress sites redirecting victims to Fake AV malware sites), so let's flesh it out a bit. (It's also […]

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Criminals Behind Rogue AV Leverage on Google

19
Mar
2012

Certain compromised pages, which are search engine optimized, are found in the wild and accessible via popular search engines like Google and Bing. There pages were found to direct the user to a site where a faux scan is performed on the affected system-typical of rogue AV. What is atypical about the said scan, however, […]

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