‘30 Rock’ Phrase ‘Circulus et Pruna’ Draws Fakealerts

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

Every search result on the first page (and most of the second page) of results for "circulus et pruna" leads to a Fakealert trap. Read more..

Postmortem Michael Jackson Track Dredges Rogues

Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt As we’ve discussed so many times in the past, search terms that include the names of celebrities make good targets for malware authors, and search terms that include ... Read more..

No Search is Sacred: Fakealerts Flood the Net

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt Search engines appear to be no longer in control of the search results they display at any given moment. That’s bad news not only for the search giants, ... Read more..

One Click, and the Exploit Kit’s Got You

Friday, September 18th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt After all the brouhaha surrounding the NYTimes.com website hosting ads which spawned rogue antivirus Fakealerts last weekend, I spent a considerable amount of time looking at so-called exploit ... Read more..

Rogues Impersonate Google, Firefox Security Alerts

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt In the past week, we’ve begun to see new fakealerts — those disturbingly effective, entirely bogus “virus warning” messages — that appear to impersonate the appearance and text ... Read more..

Jackson/Fawcett Malware is Extortion-ware

Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt As I reported yesterday, searches for information about the deaths of Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett were turning up links to malware. This came as no surprise to ... Read more..

May Threat Trend: Misleading Malware

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Posted in Latest Alerts | Comments Off

By Andrew Brandt The latest data from our customers indicate that, at least in the month of May, we were blocking and removing some of the nastiest threats on the Web. ... Read more..