scareware
Pirate Bay clampdown prompted file sharing site spike
Attempts to shut down notorious torrent tracker site The Pirate Bay have spurred a four-fold increase in the number of file sharing websites during the third quarter of 2009.
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New Scareware Turns Into Ransomware
PandaLabs is reporting that new variants of rogue anti-malware programs, often known as scareware and called rogueware by Panda, has gone a step further in ripping users off: It locks you out of access to your programs and demands $79.95 for a key to unlock them. PandaLabs is the research arm of Panda Software, makers of Panda Antivirus.
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Microsoft Sues Five Companies Over Malware Ads
Microsoft on Thursday filed five civil lawsuits against companies that have allegedly been engaged in malicious online advertising, or "malvertising."
Cybercriminals Offer 43 Cents For An Infected Mac
Good news for Mac users: An infected OS X is still not as profitable to cybercriminals as an infected Windows machine.
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Major Newspapers Hit By Scareware
he moral of such stories are that few sites are immune from such problems and you have to be skeptical wherever you go.
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Hackers tweet, infect Twitter users with scareware
...The first instance of hackers serving up "scareware," fake security software that, once installed, nags users with so many alerts that some fork over $50 or more just to "register" the program and get rid of the warnings.
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