According to security vendor LayerX, the "scareware" campaign has been hosted on malicious sites designed to resemble the official domains of major companies. An unsuspecting victim can encounter ...

Rogues programs are typically introduced into your computer when a person visits pornographic or sites that offer copyrighted content. In some cases you will be infected by just visiting these ...

Several techniques were used to get the malicious ads onto legitimate sites. The most interesting part of the campaign is the techniques used to only deliver the scareware payload to target ...

The scareware tricks victims into paying for bogus ... purchase advertising space on the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Web site. The pair was able to circumvent the Tribune’s security mechanisms ...