Remember four years ago when the "Fake Codec" scam managed to infect even large corporations? The bad guys still try this approach every now and then, but their most successful "invention" to date is clearly the fake anti-virus. We've been covering it repeatedly for the past two, three years now, and still is going strong. If an attack vector stays the same for years, it can only mean one thing: It is netting the bad guys enough money that they don't feel the urge to innovate.
The following popped up earlier today when some readers surfed to a perfectly OK web site that had apparently been hacked and "amended". The site that seems to start the dive down the FakeAV rabbit hole at the moment is (dontclick!) baullka-dot-com/red.php . The goodies then come from 91.216.122.x which is known to provide unsolicited anti-virus "help". Another netblock involved - 188.229.88.x and 188.229.92.x - seems to be a recent addition to the FakeAV universe.
I'm including a couple screenshots below, it never hurts to know what the current incarnation of FakeAV looks like ... *especially* since their current EXE registers with a mere 6/43 on the Virustotal scale.
This happen to one of my computers at home. (i was not driving) Thanks for the screen shots they come in handy to point out on key fact. Your looking at a web page that looks like your "my computer". I dont know how many times i have stressed this very point to my co-workers.
I am still wondering why the various government justice departments are not getting the people who put this stuff out. Since they always ask for money for their useless software it should be childs play to track credit card payments.
They usually use the name inst.exe but now they have changed it to pack.exe. This campaign is also tracked and net ranges are added to the RBN list. They typically buy out a /24 and rotate through the IP's in that /24 throughout the week/month.