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Sunday, 13 January 2008

MalwareCrush Fake Security Center

Posted on 05:29 by Unknown
Sometime ago, we had seen a rogue application using Microsoft's name in their website (info here). Now MalwareCrush, a new rogue on the block, uses the ISP name of a PC user who visits its webpage. The webpage claims to be a "Security Check Center" belonging to an ISP. This is to dupe PC users who visit the page, by making them to believe that the "Security Check" service is from their ISP. Here are some fake pages which use ISP names like Satyam Infoway, Intergenia AG.:


Nice trick ;)
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