compromised sites
Widespread Compromise Impacts Thousands of Legitimate Websites
The eSoft Threat Prevention Team has detected a new widespread compromise, with tens of thousands of domains infected. Cybercriminals have used stolen credentials, placing specially crafted pages into legitimate websites that lead ...
New Email Phish Targets Twitter Users, Abuses Google Groups
A new twitter spam campaign is making rounds, infecting users with rogue anti-virus malware. The spam mail attempts to convince the user that someone was trying to steal their Twitter account information, ...
135,000 Fake YouTube Pages Delivering Malware
The eSoft Threat Prevention Team has uncovered thousands compromised web servers hosting fake YouTube pages. Attempting to play the video on these fake pages prompts the user to install a ‘media codec’ ...
Anatomy of a Modern Compromised Website
In the security community, little attention is paid to compromised websites that don't serve up malware. The malicious URL lists maintained by the anti-virus companies, by Google, and by nearly every other ...
Google Groups Latest Hot Spot for Rogue AV and Malware
eSoft researchers have been tracking a recent campaign abusing Google Groups to spread malicious links in Spam emails. Â Users following the link are infected with a Downloader Trojan, silently infecting the machine ...
