- Jan 24, 2011
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Unsurprisingly, we saw blackhat SEO attacks almost immediately after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake affected Japan which was followed by a tsunami, causing massive damage to affected areas.
Trend Micro immediately monitored for any active attacks as soon as news broke out, and true enough they saw web pages inserted with key words related to the earthquake. One of the active sites that they saw used the keyword “most recent earthquake in Japan” and led to FAKEAV variants we currently detect as Mal_FakeAV-25.
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Trend Micro immediately monitored for any active attacks as soon as news broke out, and true enough they saw web pages inserted with key words related to the earthquake. One of the active sites that they saw used the keyword “most recent earthquake in Japan” and led to FAKEAV variants we currently detect as Mal_FakeAV-25.
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