 ZDNet's Ed Bott has an example of something I've never seen before: A rogue antimalware attack targeting Google Chrome users. Such attacks are neither difficult nor surprising, and this does reinforce the great truth that the "flying under the radar" approach to security is more about crossing your fingers than actually protecting yourself.
 The attack begins with poisoned search results on both Google and Bing, although this particular poisoning seems to have been cleared out from both engines. It goes on to a fairly standard rogue antimalware attack, but with a twist: It's customized to look like Google Chrome warnings. Ed has a photo gallery with screen shots. Read More |
ZDNet's Ed Bott has an example of something I've never seen before: A rogue antimalware attack targeting Google Chrome users. Such attacks are neither difficult nor surprising, and this does reinforce the great truth that the "flying under the radar" approach to security is more about crossing your fingers than actually protecting yourself.