Blackhat SEO Campaign Targets 2009 Nobel Prize Winner
We’ve identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign today which targets President Obama as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner among a thousand or so other search terms. Clicking on a malicious search result yields the typical Rogueware campaign. Search result: Rogueware site: The complete list of targeted search terms can be found here. source
Blackhat SEO Aggressively Targets Halloween Related Keywords
Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have been hard at work in poisoning search results to increase traffic to their campaign sites. Today, we identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign, which is currently targeting Halloween related keywords aggressively. While studying the campaign, I noticed that the most commonly targeted keywords were classic costume favorites, such [...]
See how the Rick Astley iPhone hack attack works
We have created a video on how the iPhone/Eeki worm targeting iPhones works. You can see it here: As you can see in the video, this malware first checks it is not already running on the device. To do so, it checks whether the following file exists:/var/lock/bbot.lock This may help you know if you are [...]
Black(hat) Friday
If you plan on shopping online for "Black Friday", or "Cyber Monday", you might be in for more than you bargained for.? Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have their blackhat SEO campaigns optimized to take advantage of deal seekers looking for advertisements online.? One misstep and you just might find yourself staring at a [...]
Rogue Antivirus Optimized for Windows 7
I came across an interesting Rogueware campaign whileresearching the ongoing Black(hat) Friday SEO campaign. Unlike the typical Roguewareattack, the cyber criminals behind this one have already optimized the campaignto take advantage of users of the brand new Microsoft Windows 7 operatingsystem by emulating its look and feel. As you can see from the screenshot above, [...]