Be careful of Fake YouTube Page!
By Gina on July 16, 2010 | Computer Security, YouTube, malware, hijack, search engines, blackhat SEO, TrendLabs, Adobe Flash Player
Watching videos and looking for information on search engines are the most popular things people choose to do on their daily lives. These features are well known to hackers so they are prepared to use it against computer users.
As stated in TrendLabs Malware Blog , recently was found attack which uses both blackhat SEO and rogue YouTube-like pages. What TrendLabs discovered was that search results of videos of reality TV celebrity Teresa Guidice, British actress Holly Davidson, etc. lead to YouTube-like pages.
The findings are compromised sites that are under the fake keywords waiting for users into visiting them. Another interesting thing TrendLabs has found is that search results for the string “Mel Gibson tapes” were found hijacking not to pages with rogue malware infection warnings, but to a prompt to download an Adobe Flash Player installer.
The reason why this is provided to the user is hoping they will click on the link and that’s how they’ll be redirected to malicious video which requires install Adobe Flash Player to view it. Threat Response Engineer Marco Dela Vega comments that the attackers used a URL that suggests that it is an Adobe-related web page.
It is strongly advised to be cautious of findings users discover by searching at search engines.
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