One of the most widespread types of cyber scam being perpetrated against consumers these days involves “scareware”—those pop-up messages you see on your computer saying you’ve got a virus and all you have to do to get rid of it is buy the antivirus software being advertised. And if you don’t buy it? The pop-ups [...]
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‘Scareware’ Distributors Targeted: 12 Nations Coordinate Anti-Cyber Crime Effort
Posted: 23rd June 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, Malware, NewsTags: Canada, Cyprus, department of justice, FakeAV, FBI, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Operation Trident Tribunal, Romania, scareware, Sweden, two arrests, UK, Ukraine, US
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U.S. Department of Justice takes down Coreflood botnet
Posted: 15th April 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, Malware, NewsTags: 2 million computers, botnet, Coreflood, Dell, department of justice, FBI, malware, microsoft
Following the infection of more than 2 million computers worldwide – most of which were based in the United States, The US Department of Justice in association with Microsoft has moved swiftly to file civil complaints, issued a restraining order and numerous criminal seizure warrants. The botnet is a network of hundreds of thousands of computers infected with a [...]