Thursday, July 1, 2010

Scareware/Rougeware Propogation Tactics

If this article doesn't make you uncomfortable, you may need to re-read it.

The infection routines being used by some scareware and rogue AV gangs are much more comprehensive and far-reaching than many current analysis have shown

Quote from SANS -
""Once the site has been compromised, the attackers install their script in any directory, preferably in a directory that is not accessible directly from the web since they will not need to access it directly. The next step the attackers do is to infect all (and I mean all!) PHP files on the compromised web site. If it's a shared web site, and the permissions are not setup correctly, they will actually infect absolutely every web site hosted on that machine," 

Read the full article and Threatpost