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Tag: rogue anti-malware

  • Rogue AV claims to send money to environmental causes

    ‘Green AV’ best added to blacklist to avoid red faces. In an attempt to lure users into buying it, the rogue anti-malware product Green AV claims to send US$2 per purchased product to the Amazon rainforest. Like similar pieces of software, Green AV uses legitimate end-user concerns about malware and spyware to try and persuade…

  • Showy malware pushes rogue anti-malware product

    MonaRonaDona trojan leads searchers to remover scam. An infection which advertises its presence using the name ‘MonaRonaDona’ is leading victims to search for a cure – and many of them are finding a targeted rogue anti-malware application widely promoted on the web as a dedicated fix for the problem. In stark contrast to the stealth…

  • Cybercriminals charged in New Zealand, Korea

    Law closes in on alleged botnet master and rogue anti-spyware maker. Police in New Zealand have charged an 18-year-old in connection with a botnet he is suspected of building and controlling, while in South Korea the head of a company pushing a rogue anti-malware product has also been indicted on fraud charges. In the New…

  • ITV site carried scareware ads

    Rogue security product pushed by ads on several UK TV sites. Several UK television-related websites, including those of major broadcaster ITV and listings guide Radio Times , have been penetrated by rogue advertising pushing fake anti-malware products. The ads, introduced onto the sites by compromised advertising laced with redirects, lead site visitors to downloads of…

  • Rogue anti-malware targets Mac users

    Scam expands horizons to draw in new market of victims. The rogue anti-malware scam, in which fake anti-spyware and anti-virus products are inveigled into victims’ machines, reporting spurious infections and demanding licensing fees to remove them, has branched out to target users of Apple Macintosh systems. According to a report from F-Secure , the latest…

  • More rogue Flash ads

    Rogue ads infiltrate Expedia and Rhapsody sites. Following on from last month’s feature on the SWF.AdHijack family (see VB, January 2008, p.12 ), malicious Flash ads were found to have made their way into popular travel site Expedia.com and music download site Rhapsody.com. According to Trend Micro researchers, the Expedia site was infiltrated by a…