[Owasp-Malaysia] Fake AV

[Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi]

Yup, the recent Haiti earthquake as well. Since it's a business
whether it's an automated or human-triggered, any unfortunate event
will trigger to this kind of threat.

Google also mentioned this in their blog:
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/04/rise-of-fake-anti-virus.html



On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:23 PM, David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:10:25PM +0800, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recent death of Polish President was exploited by malware writers:
>>
>> http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2010/04/12/fakeav-takes-advantage-of-president.aspx
>
> This is very much in keeping with their usual behavior.  I suspect
> that at least some of them use news feeds to generate enticing
> headlines automatically.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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