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Scareware and “Scary” Scams Aren’t the Same Thing

04
Oct
2012

Two big headlines to comment on. First, there’s this: FTC Case Results in $163 Million Judgment Against “Scareware” Marketer. The defendant, Kristy Ross, has been involved in U.S. FTC cases going back to 2008: Court Halts Bogus Computer Scans. Her boyfriend “Sam” Jain is still at large: You can read more about Jain in this […]

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Fake YouTube infects PCs with SpyEye Bot

11
May
2011

The following site is a great YouTube replica that really tricks you as all video links are actually working properly.secretyoutube.comBut it has a dirty secret: The site pushes a malicious Java drive-by download from: secretyoutube.com/YouTube.jar (VirusTotal (7/42) report here).The applet contains one class (YouTube.class) whose intent is fairly straightforward: To download and run an executable.The file […]

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