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#3784791 Fake Firefox Update Used To Sling Scareware

Posted thaimite on 2010-07-30 22:10:26

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Online con artists have developed a strain of scareware that poses as a Firefox update.

  The tactic is a change from the standard approach adopted by  purveyors of rogue anti-virus scanners - tricking users into visiting  scareware portals running fake security scans that report non-existent  security problems to panic surfers into buying software that's worse  than useless. Prospective marks are normally lured to these sites  through search engine manipulation, which ensures rogue sites appear  prominently in lists of search results for newsworthy terms.

The new ruse features a fake Firefox "Just Updated" page of the type  that is displayed just after users update their browser software, a  regular occurrence of late. The page claims that users need to get a  Flash update, and produces a download dialogue box with a scareware  payload. The attack kicks in once surfers visit a maliciously  constructed website and is not associated with genuine Firefox updates  from Mozilla, which simply serve as a theme for the attack.


#3773934 Less Than A Year Until Internet Addresses Run Dry

Posted Phil Conners on 2010-07-26 11:49:38

IPV5? Is that a new standard?  I never heard about it...  IPV6 though has been in the pipeline since the nineties but it seems to be in a frozen state at this time.


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