Blog by Tyler Moffitt
Originallyposted here:http://www.webroot.com/blog/2014/12/05/social-engineering-improvements-keep-roguesfakeav-viable-scam....
The threat landscape has beenaccustomed to rogues for a while now. They’ve been rampant for the past few years and there likely isn’t any end in sight to this scam.These aren’t complex pieces of malware by any means and typicallydon’t fool the average experienced user, butthat’s because they’re aimed at the inexperienced user.We’re going to take a look at some of the improvements seen recently in the latest round of FakeAVs that lead to their success. While the imagesshownmay have different names ofA-Secure, Zorton, and AVbytes, they are identical in execution, appearance and are likely from the same author(s). Webroot users are protected from all variants of these encountered.
This is what...