GamersCrib
02-09-2009, 11:11 AM
This is rather interesting news and worthy of its own thread. Seem many a system here lately infected with the "Anti-virus 2009/2010" or "AV360" junk and this fits the bill.
Hackers have discovered a new way of duping users onto fraudulent websites: fake parking tickets.
Cars in the US had traffic violation tickets placed on the windscreen, which then directed users to a website.
The website claimed to have photos of the alleged parking violation, but then tricks users into downloading a virus.
Anti-virus firm McAfee says the Vundo Trojan then gets users to install a fake anti-virus scanner.
Vehicles in Grand Forks, North Dakota, were the targets for this new type of fraud.
Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".
Read more here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7872299.stm).
Hackers have discovered a new way of duping users onto fraudulent websites: fake parking tickets.
Cars in the US had traffic violation tickets placed on the windscreen, which then directed users to a website.
The website claimed to have photos of the alleged parking violation, but then tricks users into downloading a virus.
Anti-virus firm McAfee says the Vundo Trojan then gets users to install a fake anti-virus scanner.
Vehicles in Grand Forks, North Dakota, were the targets for this new type of fraud.
Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".
Read more here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7872299.stm).