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Be on the lookout for websites offering up “free applications” which come with a nasty sting in the tail. Here’s a typical example: Appzkeygen(dot)com If you like videogame consoles, you may be a fan of emulators (programs that ape long dead consoles, allowing you to play old games on your PC – we’ll avoid the murky legal minefield that comes with this practice and instead focus on the malware). Below is a Playstation 2 emulator – no really, it is
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Consoles for old games come with new malcode
LifeLock, Inc., the company that GUARANTEED it would prevent customers’ identities from being stolen (for $10 per month) has agreed to pay fines totaling $12 million because the claims it made to promote its protection services were false, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The company will pay $11 million to the FTC and $1 million to the attorneys general of 35 states.
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LifeLock will pay $12 million for false claims
There’s an angelically tinged infection doing the rounds at the moment that has more than a whiff of sulphur about it. We can’t say for definite, but it looks like the point of this little angel is to turn your PC into a file storage area for an IRC channel since it dumps you into #music IRC channels and makes sure you can accept various media files. Our tale begins with an Email, claiming you have a “funny picture from Facebook friends” waiting for you at Oast(dot)com: This is what the end-user will download onto their system – an executable claiming to be a .gif: Should they run the file, two things will happen
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Cute (and malicious)
Our good friends at F-Secure AV company have blogged about a new and significant malcode-delivery technique: publishing a web page with a .pdf file on it then changing the .pdf link to something malicious after search engines index the page. What they found delivered a rogue security product (but of course.) Nice work F-Secure.
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Search engine bait and switch
The U.S. Census Bureau is warning of phishing and other scams that are using the 2010 Census as bait. Here is the warning from the bureau’s web site: If you are contacted for any of the following reasons — Do Not Participate.
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U.S. Census Bureau warning of phishing scams
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