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Protozoids Tap Veterans Day Sentiment To Push Malware

Websense reports that search terms like veterans day, s day 2010, and veteran are turning up a high number of malicious Web sites in the results. Cyber criminals are using poisoned image searches around Veterans Day terms to redirect Web surfers to sites that will push rogue antivirus software. The code being pushed by the malicious sites is similar to that pushed a few weeks back around the U.S. midterm elections, when sites pushing rogue AV were found being served up in search results for election-related terms.

Source: https://threatpost.com/protozoids-tap-veterans-day-sentiment-push-malware-111110/74664/

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