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Beware of Rogue Anti-Malware

2008-08-18 10:16:04 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Rogue anti-virus and anti-spyware products are not a new story, but they are a relatively growing threat. One of these threats made some news this week and taught some lessons about just how suspicious you have to be of them. We had heard of XP Antivirus also known by a plethora of name variants, including Antivirus XP and year variants like...
 
Tags: anti-malware, rogue anti-malware vendors, legit software, software, sunbelt software, malware, rogue anti-malware software, fake malware scan, google ads
 
 
 
 
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Rogue RBN Software Pushed Through Blackhat SEO

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2008-03-05 08:19:46 by HASH0x8b39d2c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...rogue XP AntiVirus are relying on a much more diverse set of domains loading the IFRAME. One factor remains the same, both campaigns continue pushing the rogue XP AntiVirus. XP AntiVirus's pitch, note the downloads success rate mentioned and how they forgot to change the template used in the campaign by putting the rogue's name XP antivirus...
 
Tags: rbn, huge iframe campaign, iframe campaign, iframe, rbn coverage, single rbn, russian business network, campaign, antivirus
 
 
 
 
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Blackhat SEO Redirects to Malware and Rogue Software

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2008-06-05 07:59:47 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...rogue codecs (Zlob malware variants) and fake security software phoning back to UkrTeleGroup Ltd's network - could it get even more interesting? Of course, as the current state of Zlob malware serving tactics can be seperated in two distinct groups, those abusing the "sort of" zero day Flash exploit , as the currently active SQL injection...
 
Tags: sites, profile sites, multimedia sites, codec sites, zlob variants, zlob, zlob malware variants, rogue codec sites, domains
 
 
 
 
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Top 10 Signs Your Network Admin has Gone Rogue

2008-07-25 18:00:30 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...Rogue 10) David Letterman has a Top 10 list called Top 10 Signs Your Network Admin Has Gone Rogue 9) Your Admin is the only one with the network device log-ins and refuses to share them with anyone else 8) His presentations about network configuration include the words Magic and Burn after reading 7) Instead of email, he forces everyone to...
 
Tags: network admin, admin, top, lock-down, signs, lock-down free weekend, rogue, network configuration include, email
 
 
 
 
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Windows stalked by rogue packets?

2008-02-28 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
...rogue" packets and that any 'Net connected PC could be affected. Sounds scary, but I am sure it's just another day in the Redmond Patch Department. One thing that does scare me, given my "Out of office" message is on this week, is a story about how spammers are using such auto-reply messages as means to relay Spam. Hopefully, I am not...
 
Tags: redmond patch department, windows, packets, security team, rogue, sounds scary, relay spam, auto-reply messages, story
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: How to protect your network from rogue IT employees

2008-07-21 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Several basic network security principles appear to have been ignored in the city of San Francisco's IT department, resulting in a rogue network admin creating a "superpassword" that blocked everyone else's administrative functions -- and his arrest
 
Tags: rogue network admin, administrative functions, san francisco, department, city, superpassword
 
 
 
 
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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473438 in Network World on Security
 
...rogue admin taking a network hostage for reasons unknown, but new information from a source close to the situation presents a different picture
 
Tags: san francisco, terry childs, network administrator, network hostage, rogue admin, reasons unknown, news reports, source close, million bail
 
 
 
 
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Spamblogs Pushing Rogue Antivirus Programs

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2008-08-11 18:50:05 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...rogue antivirus product. From here on it, any and all attempts to get rid of this page results in an endless barrage of popups, scare tactics ad hilariously lame warning messages (note the first one is called a "Security Update Wow, they just get more and more hysterical, don't they The site to block that's pimping the fake...
 
Tags: security, security blog feeds, rogue antivirus product, click, videos, pretend youtube vids, fake videos, scare tactics, endless barrage
 
 
 
 
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My First Rogue Cleaner Popup Of The Month

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2008-09-01 08:24:51 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
Click to Enlarge courtesy of Secureonlinetags(dot)com, seemingly associated with popups from rogue antispyware hijacks. The feedback isn't particularly positive on Siteadvisor either, so you might want to block this domain
 
Tags: rogue antispyware hijacks, courtesy, seemingly, feedback, domain, click, siteadvisor, popups, block