Comments on: Beware the Malware Banner

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:47:01 +0000

The malware banner is targeted at inexperienced users. We IT pros know about internet marketing and we do skip banners and all sorts of ads but how many billions of users are unaware of this? All these billions of users who don’t know the ins and outs of internet marketing are a target. Plenty of fish this is!

By: 888Tina

888Tina — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:53:08 +0000

Spammers and hackers are increasing up the ante. They’re getting more creative to try to lure potential victims.

The Zeus malware has been around the webosphere for almost four years now.

The good news: more than 90 people were already arrested in connection with the Zeus malware.

The very very BAD NEWS:
Just this month, Zeus malware’s source codes were shared online for everyone to see, use, manipulate, and exploit. Some even sold the complete and running package online. What a shame.

By: William Belafonte

William Belafonte — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:31:30 +0000

Crafty, but still somewhat obvious. Any marketer will tell you that an ad that matches the typeface and color scheme of the content it is embedded in may be deceptive, but not eye-catching, and in the internet world, how many banner ads do we just scroll right past without looking at every day? Still, as I said, a clever trick that hopefully is not long from disappearing from the spammer’s cookbook.

By: Rita Rogers

Rita Rogers — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:07:55 +0000

Basically, isn’t it too much hassle to create a banner and use it? I mean since the CTR for banners is notoriously low, I guess not many people will show interest in the banner and visit the site? Nevertheless, thanks for keeping us posted on all new malware techniques.