The Saturday night boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey was one of the most awaited sports events of 2010. It should not be a surprise then that cybercriminals took advantage of it to spread malware. Another blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) attack led users who wanted to watch the fight online via live video streams (using the search phrase “manny pacquiao vs joshua clottey live streaming”) to malicious sites.

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Pacquiao-Clottey Live Streams Lead to FAKEAV

April 3 cannot come soon enough for those who are eager to get their hands on the iPad . If anything, Apple ’ s recent announcement that the gadget will soon be available in the United States only added to the excitement over the much-talked-about gadget.

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iPad Giveaway Gives Users’ Identities Away

Another day, another news, and well… another SEO Poisoning stint. Using PDF files in SEO poisoning is a bit recent, but not exactly fresh news.

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SEO Poisoning Sites Use Flash for Redirection

News of a performer killer whale allegedly killing its trainer made the headlines this week. Dawn Branchaeu, an animal trainer in SeaWorld Florida , was attacked by one of the trained killer whales last Wednesday

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FAKEAV Rides on the Back of a Killer Whale

News of another plane crash shook Americans on Thursday morning. Reportedly, a begrudged pilot, furious with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), intentionally crashed a small plane on the building that housed the agency’s office in Austin, Texas. Although the said incident was tagged “an isolated event” and not an act of terrorism, cybercriminals launched their own “terrorist” attack by scaring unknowing users using another FAKEAV variant to gain profit

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FAKEAV Cashes in on Austin, Texas Plane Crash

After the earthquake that hit Haiti last week, January 12, the Internet was flooded with requests for financial donations, although it may be noted that not all of which were true to their stated intentions. Martin Roesler, Trend Micro Director of Threat Research, warns users of the internet to be very careful when following links regarding the latest earthquakes in Haiti.

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Haiti: Earthquake Unearths Malware

A day after the disaster that struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti, Rogue perpetrators have once again been busy with their SEO poisoning schemes. Searching for terms related to this earthquake leads to a website that installs a Rogue into the system. It happens when an unsuspecting user searches for Haiti Earthquake details.

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Haiti Earthquake: Another Rogue Rides the News

Cybercriminals have been found riding on Brittany Murphy’s sudden death to scare people into buying FAKEAV . Searching for keywords like “brittany murphy’s death” on Google resulted in at least two suspicious URLs: http://{BLOCKED}erracing.net/vwb.php?sell=brittany%20murphy%20death http://{BLOCKED}x.net/icd.php?go=brittany%20murphy%20death The spike in searches on Murphy’s death has become the theme for the latest blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) attack, which pushed malicious sites to redirect users to scareware portals

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News on Brittany Murphy’s Death Lead to FAKEAV

Tricking users into downloading rogue AV is an age-old cybercriminal tactic that still works. Hence the continuous rise in the number of rogue AV pushed to unwitting scam victims up to this day

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Rogue AV Scams Result in US$150M in Losses

Just a quick note - the sudden death of Hollywood celebrity Brittany Murphy last Sunday (BBC report here ) has prompted a spike in searches on the subject - and of course, an SEO attack. Users who click on a poisoned search result link will be redirected to a website that will display a scare message trying to panic users into downloading rogue AV software: Screenshots of the rogue AV: We detect the rogue AV as Trojan-Downloader:W32/Fakevimes.T

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Brittany Murphy SEO