Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Miss Universe SEO poisoning (surprise surprise)

Our alert analyst Adam found this one, although we don�t know why he was doing web searches for �Miss Universe 2010.� He clicked on one, expecting to see long legs. Instead, he saw this pop up:

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VIPRE detects it as FraudTool.Win32.SecurityTool (v)

The really mangled English should have given that away � for native speakers, anyway.

Clicking �OK� lead to this rogue:

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The rogue �Security Tool� has been around since last October. We posted it on the rogue blog here.

Thanks Adam

Tom Kelchner

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