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FakeAlerts Uncovered

July 02nd, 2009

It has been almost a year since the rogue antivirus products, a.k.a. scareware, became rampant.  These Trojan families are typically spread via Drive by downloads, SEO poisoning, Spam campaigns and clever social engineering. Having these methods discussed in earlier blogs, today we will look into the protection mechanisms adopted by these fake alerts Trojan families to [...]    More

Generic Rootkit.d Strikes Again in New Variant

June 29th, 2009

A few days ago I got a chance to look at a recent variant of the DNSChanger.ad. It drops a common rootkit that is mostly associated with FakeAlert and DNSChanger Trojans. Over a period of time the dropped sys file names have changed from tdss*.sys to seneka*.sys to skynet*.sys and so on. Our memory detection [...]    More

Michael Jackson News Affects Web Traffic

June 26th, 2009

The announcement of Michael Jackson’s death has caused immediate effects on the Web 2.0 world. The impact ranged from the interruption on Facebook of coverage of Farrah Fawcett’s death to a surge experienced by Twitter. The Web 2.0 world is definitely abuzz with traffic regarding his passing. Within hours the percentage of “long-tail” URL traffic associated with [...]    More

 

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