A Catalog of Hazardous AV Sites – A Tale of Malware Hosting

A Catalog of Hazardous AV Sites – A Tale of Malware Hosting By Trellix · May 23, 2024 This blog was written by Gurumoorthi Ramanathan Executive summary In mid-April 2024, Trellix Advanced Research Center team members observed multiple fake AV sites hosting highly sophisticated malicious files suc...

Google Crushes YouTube Cookie-Stealing Channel Hijackers

Google has caught and brushed off a bunch of cookie-stealing YouTube channel hijackers who were running cryptocurrency scams on the ripped-off channels. In a Wednesday post, Ashley Shen, with Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, said that TAG attributes the assaults to a group of attackers recruit...

DailyMotion Still Serving FakeAV Malware Scam

More than three weeks after notifying video-sharing site DailyMotion that it was compromised, security company Invincea reports the popular website is still infected. A spokesperson told Threatpost that Invincea’s original notification was not acknowledged and the company suspects this is a...

DailyMotion Hosting Malvertising Leading to Fake AV Attack

Video-sharing site DailyMotion, one of the most popular destinations on the Web, is in the throes of an attack where it is serving malicious ads redirecting users to a fake AV scam. Security firm Invincea reported the issue to the website, and as of 4 p.m. ET, DailyMotion was still serving the fa...

Fake Antivirus Lives On, Now Infecting 200K WordPress Pages

A new series of mass-injections have been targeting WordPress sites as of late and appear to have already infected more than 200,000 web pages according to a report on Websense’s Security Labs blog earlier this week. The injections lead unsuspecting users to a bogus AV site that appears to perfor...

FTC Gives Refunds to Rogue Antivirus Victims

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is sending reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people victimized by a rogue antivirus scam. According to the FTC, the checks are the result of the settlement between the agency and several defendants named in a complaint the FTC filed in 2008. As part of the...

Fake antivirus campaign on India's DNA e-newspaper website !

Fake antivirus campaign on India's DNA e-newspaper website ! DNA Daily News and Analysis is an Indian daily English language newspaper. According to Wikipedia, DNA ranks 8th among the top ten English dailies in India. Recently, the Zscaler solution was blocking access to this site, as it containe...

GoDaddy's WordPress, PHP Sites Hacked Again

WordPress users whose websites are hosted on GoDaddy servers have been targeted by fake AV peddlers yet again. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Fake AV Using Domain Rotation To Blast Users

In a report being released today, Google said that between January 2009 and the end of January 2010 it found some 11,000 malicious or hacked Web pages that attempted to foist fake anti-virus on visitors. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Skype 'Online Notification' Alert Leads to Fake AV

Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson has discovered a new twist on the old social engineering attacks on Skype — the use of usernames and monikers that appear very, very convincing. In the latest attacks, which lure computer users to fake anti-virus sites rogueware, the attackers are using the...