David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
More Swayze-Baited Traps
by Chu Kian, WebSecurity
September 17, 2009
First it was spam; now it is videos. People looking for videos of Patrick Swayze's funeral may stumble across the following website listed in Google's search results:
{image at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001770.html}
Folks may think that they need to click on the "video" to enable video streaming. Actually, it's an image and clicking on it takes the user to another website that promises this video:
{image at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001770.html}
And clicking on THIS video ends up with the victim unintentionally downloading a rogue "antivirus program" which is actually malware.
Incidentally, on the first website the bottom video is an actual YouTube video that's completely unrelated to the funeral and is not linked to malware.
by Chu Kian, WebSecurity
September 17, 2009
First it was spam; now it is videos. People looking for videos of Patrick Swayze's funeral may stumble across the following website listed in Google's search results:
{image at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001770.html}
Folks may think that they need to click on the "video" to enable video streaming. Actually, it's an image and clicking on it takes the user to another website that promises this video:
{image at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001770.html}
And clicking on THIS video ends up with the victim unintentionally downloading a rogue "antivirus program" which is actually malware.
Incidentally, on the first website the bottom video is an actual YouTube video that's completely unrelated to the funeral and is not linked to malware.
