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Red Button SEO Poisoning and Malware Campaign
eSoft researchers have been tracking a new campaign by cybercrooks, compromising and creating websites for use in SEO poisoning and malware distribution. Thousands of these sites have been detected that use elaborate techniques to trick search engines and are ready to serve malware in an i ...
Posted 30 June 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: malware , blackhat seo , pagerank bomb , web security , exploits
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New Email Phish Targets Twitter Users, Abuses Google Groups
A new twitter spam campaign is making rounds, infecting users with rogue anti-virus malware. The spam mail attempts to convince the user that someone was trying to steal their Twitter account information, and to download a “secure module” to protect their account. The email that begi ...
Posted 08 June 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: twitter , malware , virus , compromised sites
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135 000 Fake YouTube Pages Delivering Malware
The eSoft Threat Prevention Team has uncovered thousands compromised web servers hosting fake YouTube pages. Attempting to play the video on these fake pages prompts the user to install a ‘media codec’ which then infects the machine with malware. The fake YouTube pages are well ...
Posted 07 June 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: compromised websites , youtube , malware , virus
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Google Groups Latest Hot Spot for Rogue AV and Malware
eSoft researchers have been tracking a recent campaign abusing Google Groups to spread malicious links in Spam emails. Users following the link are infected with a Downloader Trojan, silently infecting the machine with various types of malware including Rogue Anti-Virus. The scam starts with an e ...
Posted 12 May 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: spam , virus , malware , compromised sites
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Tiger Woods (Searches) Not to Be Trusted
Tiger Woods’ personal life and marital affairs have attracted constant attention from the press and has certainly damaged his public reputation.  With his return to the Masters, Nike has released a new commercial in an effort to rebuild Woods’ image.  This compelling commer ...
Posted 08 April 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: malware , blackhat seo , pagerank bomb , rogue av
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Cinderella Story Leads to March Madness Malware
The first week of March Madness has brought about many compelling stories, with a good deal of upsets and bracket busters. The most newsworthy of these has been the University of Northern Iowa’s ousting of #1 overall seed Kansas. This ‘Cinderella’ story has deservedly gotten a grea ...
Posted 22 March 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: blackhat seo , malware , rogue av
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IRS Tax Avoidance Scam
Today, eSoft is alerting customers to a new targeted email scam. This newest twist to the common IRS email scam seems to be targeted to organizations, notifying the recipient of a tax evasion complaint being filed against the company. Opening the file infects the user's machine with dangerous t ...
Posted 08 February 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Fraud , Virus , Malware , Scam
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Beware of MySpace JPG File Downloader - GTALK Messenger Infection
The malware infection attack surface is increasing day by day. Recently, some of the infected machines with different malware classes such as file downloader are using GTALK for downloading JPG based files from the internet. Actually this file is not a JPG file but a zipped file that contains an ex ...
Posted 15 December 2009 by Aditya K Sood
tags: Malware , Messenger
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Blackhats Unleash Fake Blog Campaign Spreading Rogue AV
In September, eSoft reported as many as 720,000 compromised sites hosting fake blog pages and being used to distribute rogue anti-virus programmes. Many of these sites are still active and continue to plague searches with malicious results. Earlier today, Cyveillance issued this report of a nearl ...
Posted 18 November 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: web security , compromised sites , rogue AV , malware
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