Apple's MacDefender Removal Tool Bypassed By New Variant
The ball is back in Apple's court as malware authors developed a MacDefender variant that could bypass Apple's XProtect feature that detects and removes known fake Antivirus scareware.
Rogue AV ArchiveJune 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 11:39 PM/CST
March 29, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:00 PM/CST
StartupBritain Serves Up Fake AV On LaunchAttackers continue to use third-party links to direct users from legitimate Websites to malicious pages. This time, the affected site was StartupBritain.org, a site for would-be entrepreneurs. January 25, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:47 PM/CST
Rogue AV Scam Hits ICQ UsersKaspersky Lab has uncovered a rogue antivirus scam affecting ICQ users. October 22, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010 7:47 PM/CST
Trojan Masquerades as Microsoft Security EssentialsResearchers at F-Secure shined the light on a Trojan passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials. September 7, 2010
Tuesday, September 07, 2010 9:34 AM/CST
Microsoft Warns of Rogue Antivirus AttackMicrosoft is warning users about a new fake AV program that mimics warnings generated by popular browsers as well as the Microsoft Security Essentials Web page. August 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:23 PM/CST
Nearly 3 Million Fake YouTube Pages Found Leading to Rogue AVResearchers at Zscaler have found nearly 3 million "Hot Video" Web pages indexed by Google that lead to rogue anti-virus. June 23, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:16 PM/CST
Rogue AV Operation on the PhoneA Symantec researcher recounts how a rogue antivirus scam used the telephone to attempt to con her. April 23, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010 7:45 AM/CST
SEO Poisoning Piggybacks on McAfee Update GlitchAttackers have moved to take advantage of people caught up in the McAfee AV update issue by launching poisoned SEO campaigns via Google. April 8, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:45 PM/CST
Phony eBay Security Warnings on the ProwlAttackers continue to combine technical and social engineering attempts, including hacked pages of well-known sites such as eBay, to successfully target end users. March 9, 2010
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:00 PM/CST
Black Hat SEO Campaigns Claim 284 Top Terms in 7 DaysMore than 284 top search terms were attacked over the past week with 6,600 malicious URLs, according to SonicWall. 
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