400,000 Google Video Queries Point To Malware
From a Trend Micro blog comes a report that over 400,000 Google Video queries lead to a single domain which downloads a worm to the user’s computer. From their post: Search traffic on Google Video were found to be polluted: instead of legitimate videos researchers found some 400,000 queries returning video results that have a single redirection point, and one that eventually leads to malware download and execution. Trend Micro detects the malicious executable as WORM_AQPLAY.A. This worm — file name FlashPlayer.v3.181.exe and from that alone one can already guess the social engineering strategy — spreads via removable and ... more