Since the beginning of October we have seen a variant of fake antivirus malware that belongs to the FakeRean family of rogue security products. FakeRean is distributed by drive-by downloads or is dropped and executed by another malware. It blocks victims from accessing any other legitimate application on an infected machine. Like other fake AV Read more…
Tags: Defender 2013, fake-av, FakeRean, Multiplatform FakeAV, MultiRogue, rogue security software, Vista Defender 2013, Win7 Defender 2013, XPDefender 2013
McAfee Labs researchers have seen an increase in instances of the McAfee SECURE logo being falsified as part of a “ransomware” campaign. Once a machine is infected, the malware checks to see which country the user is located in. It then displays a localized graphic containing a police logo and a message announcing that the Read more…
Tags: fake alert, fake-av, Ransomware, rogue security software
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