nsane.forums Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Scammers who try to trick victims into downloading fake antivirus software can strike almost anywhere. On Sunday they hit the website of Kaspersky Lab, a well-known antivirus vendor.Someone took advantage of a bug in a Web program used by the Kasperskyusa.com website and reprogrammed it to try and trick visitors into downloading a fake product, Kaspersky confirmed Tuesday. Kaspersky didn't identify the flaw, but said it was in a "third-party application" used by the website. "As a result of the attack, users trying to download Kaspersky Lab's consumer products were redirected to a malicious website," the antivirus vendor said. The website caused a pop-up window to appear that simulated a virus scan of the user's PC, and offered to install an antivirus program that was in fact bogus. This is a typical trick for fake-antivirus scammers, who are constantly looking for new ways to trick victims into buying their products. In the past they've been known to pose as legitimate online advertisers and then suddenly switch their ad inventory from legitimate-looking ads to these fake pop-up messages.Security experts say the safest thing to do when one of these fake antivirus messages pops up is to simply kill the Web browser. On Windows, this can be done by hitting ctrl-alt-delete and ending the browser process in the Task Manager.According to Kaspersky, its website was redirecting users to the rogue antivirus site for about three-and-a-half hours Sunday. The company did a complete audit of its websites afterwards "to ensure they're running fully updated code."In discussion forums, users complained that the site was trying to download fake antivirus software called Security Tools.This isn't the first time Kaspersky has had to audit its websites after an incident. In February 2009 a hacker was able to break into the company's U.S. support site after discovering a Web programming flaw. That flaw could have given the hacker access to customer e-mail addresses and product activation codes via a common attack technique called SQL injection.Nobody's information was compromised in Sunday's attack, Kaspersky said. "However, Kaspersky Lab takes any attempt to compromise its security seriously," the company said. "Our researchers are currently working on identifying any possible consequences of the attack for affected users, and are available to provide help to remove the fake antivirus software." View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drolz Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 theres a possibility that the hacker was hired by its AV competitors and of course theres also the online thugs. its a shame for their part, for a leading AV producer that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipo Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 :)) if kaspersky gets hacked why would an ordinary man complain??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drolz Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 :)) if kaspersky gets hacked why would an ordinary man complain???whats your point? have you tried reading the article?having said that, this is the ordinary man complained : he complained that the site was trying to download fake antivirus software called Security Tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehsan Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 theres a possibility that the hacker was hired by its AV competitors and of course theres also the online thugs. its a shame for their part, for a leading AV producer that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 How do you make the world a bit more tense and place their trust in less and less things? Take down the giants. Nothing is "safe" exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 For the average user, this could be some scary stuff. I wonder how many people were affected. Is K going to compensate them with life long product codes? That would be worth it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntbug Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 anyone try to hack norton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 For the average user, this could be some scary stuff. I wonder how many people were affected. Is K going to compensate them with life long product codes? That would be worth it :) :lol:Clever you!PS dont forget to share them ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mara- Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 If they can't protect themselves how can their protect their users? I never used their products and I'll never will.Cheers ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjtricket Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Norton, eset, they all get hacked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 20, 2010 Administrator Share Posted October 20, 2010 Yup Norton was hacked probably around six months ago, don't remember. Am unaware about ESET.These companies call themselves security experts. :duh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsane Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Everything is hackable, just depends on the skill level of the hacker ;)Hell, this site got hacked back when we were hosted at PRQ... although I'm not giving any details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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