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Monday, June 27, 2011

Watch out ...!! Japanese Quake Cyber ​​Criminals Ride

It's become a habit for cyber criminals to take advantage of major events in the action. Likewise, after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

As quoted from the Internet Storm Center, on Monday (3/14/2011), will report the action has begun to emerge. Organizations that monitor the development of attacks and malware on the internet that was broadcast the warning.

One trick that soon spread is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This trick is so that a search on Google about the Japanese earthquake will bring up malicious sites.

One of the keywords that become the target is 'most recent earthquake in Japan'. Search results bring up a link to a fake antivirus.

TrendMicro reports, malicious programs or TROJ_FAKEAV.PB MalFakeAV-25 has been stalking users who stray from the search results.

Cyber ​​criminals also take advantage of the Facebook page to trap his victims. This is for example in the form of pages that pretend to have a video tsunami in Japan.

Therefore, watch out Facebook page with a title like this: 'Japanese Tsunami RAW Tidal Wave Footage!' and the like.

Page, according to TrendMicro, will show the picture that seemed to link the video. If clicked, the user will be prompted to enter a phone number.

In addition, the account will automatically victim to Like the page and display a link to a malicious page on his Wall.

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