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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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Affiliate Programs Rising Cause of Fraud and Abuse
What happens when you offer up money to anyone who can drive traffic to your website? Hackers, scammers, spammers and fraudsters come to your aid. That’s the case with online movie site zml.com, which offers 30% of each sale and 5% of rebills paid via anonymous means to anyone who re ...
Posted 05 April 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: web security , spam , affiliate , abuse
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Fake Firefox Update Pages Push Adware
Since its’ release on January 21st, the newest version of the Firefox web browser has received a great deal of attention. In just a short time it has achieved over 30 million downloads. Adware pushers are capitalizing on the success of Firefox, packing ad serving software in with the prog ...
Posted 03 February 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: firefox , adware , web security
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Super Bowl associations: football, nachos, big screens and … malware?
The Super Bowl is the one of the biggest and most watched television events of the year in the United States. People everywhere scour the internet looking for predictions, gambling spreads and news before the event and scores, stories and clips after the event. In anticipation of the increased ...
Posted 19 January 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Blackhat SEO , PageRank Bomb , Web Security , Rogue AV , Google Search
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Lack of Egress Filtering Spurs Success of Injected IFrame Attack
The security community at large and the eSoft Threat Prevention Team have recently noticed an uptick in sites compromised by a new injection attack that results in an injected iframe. This attack can be recognised by its attempts to masquerade the malicious script as GNU, GPL or LGPL.  GPL and ...
Posted 18 January 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Web Security , Injection Attack
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Boeing 787 searches hijacked by rogue anti-virus
Today, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet completed its much awaited first flight. As users searched to find videos and news articles related to the story, blackhats quickly moved in for yet another attack against Google search results. The most popular search for several hours today was “787 fi ...
Posted 16 December 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Web Security , Rogue AV , Google Search , Blackhat SEO
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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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CoolerEmail Hit by Phishing Scam
CoolerEmail is notifying customers of a new phishing scam used to steal login credentials. The web based email marketing programme carries an impressive client list including Walmart, Toyota, Pepsi and dozens of other big name brands. Any phished credentials can be used to impersonate these companie ...
Posted 13 November 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Phishing , Web Security
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Compromised Web Servers Host Koobface Malware Cocktail
The Koobface gang has struck again using compromised web servers to deliver a potent mix of malware. eSoft threat researchers have found hundreds of newly exploited sites hosting malware which includes downloaders, keyloggers and multiple variants of the Koobface worm. Attackers using compromised ...
Posted 21 October 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Web Security , Koobface , Social Networking , Social Engineering , Compromised Sites
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Recapping the Fox Sports Website Compromise
On October 2nd eSoft published a blog warning visitors of the Fox Sports website about compromised pages with the potential to serve malicious software. To date, the threat remains on their website despite direct warnings to Fox Sports webmasters and domain contacts of the infection. This website ...
Posted 09 October 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Compromised Sites , Web Security
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