Peaches Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Sep24, 2009 Bogus Sponsored Link Leads to FAKEAV by Erika Mendoza (Threat Response Engineer) Apart from SEO poisoning, cybercriminals have found another avenue to proliferate FAKEAV malware—bogus sponsored links (sitio patrocinados in Spanish). Just recently, Trend Micro researchers were alerted to malicious search engine ads that appeared in Microsoft’s Bing and AltaVista, among others, when a user searches the string “malwarebytes.” (Malwarebytes is a free antivirus product, but of course, not a FakeAV.) Clicking the malicious URL points the user to an executable file named MalwareRemovalBot.exe-1 (detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_FAKEAV.DMZ). Story & screenshots at Trendmicro - http://blog.trendmicro.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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