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Article: Hackers Scam Thousands with Bogus Anti-Spyware Offers; Hackers are scamming users with ads on legitimate high-traffic news, entertainment and job Web sites.
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- eWeek
- Article date:
- November 9, 2007
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Want some anti-spyware? How about a Trojan with that?
That is not a literal sales pitch, but the end result of a multistep scam involving rogue anti-spyware that researchers at SecureWorks are warning Web surfers about. Though tricking users into downloading Trojans via bogus anti-spyware is nothing new, security researchers said the magnitude of the scam makes it problematic.
"Rogue anti-spyware scams have been in circulation for several years," said Don Jackson, a security researcher at Atlanta-based SecureWorks. "However, they were typically one-off-type scams. We have never seen a malicious campaign using rogue anti-spyware of this magnitude before .... SecureWorks has personally seen ...