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"Luis Guerra" <jerseypalisades@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:07:06 -0500

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BBC NEWS
Parking ticket leads to a virus
Hackers have discovered a new way of duping users onto fraudulent websites: 
fake
parking tickets.
Cars in the US had traffic violation tickets placed on the windscreen, which 
then
directed users to a website.
The website claimed to have photos of the alleged parking violation, but 
then tricks
users into downloading a virus.
Anti-virus firm McAfee says the Vundo Trojan then gets users to install a 
fake anti-virus
scanner.
Vehicles in Grand Forks, North Dakota were the targets for this new type of 
fraud.
Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their 
windscreen: "PARKING
VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".
The ticket then instructed drivers to visit a website, where drivers could 
"view
pictures with information about your parking preferences".
According to internet security watchdog The SANS Institute, the website then 
had
photos of cars in various car parks around Grand Forks and instructed users 
to download
a tool bar to find photos of their own vehicle.
But the tool bar was actually an executable file which installed a Trojan 
virus that
then displayed a fake security alert when the PC was rebooted. The fake 
alert then
prompted the user to install fake anti-virus software.
Writing on the SANS blog, anti-virus analyst Lenny Zeltser ran through the 
different
stages of infection.
"The initial program installed itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for 
Internet
Explorer that downloaded a component from childhe.com and attempted to trick 
the
victim into installing a fake anti-virus scanner from bestantispyware 
securityscan.com
and protectionsoft warecheck.com," he explained.
It is thought this is the first time fraudsters had used real world 
solutions to
try and trick users, although Mr Zeltser warned that it would not be the 
last.
"Attackers continue to come up with creative ways of tricking potential 
victims into
installing malicious software.
"Merging physical and virtual worlds via objects that point to websites is 
one way
to do this. I imagine we'll be seeing such approaches more often."
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/7872299.stm
Published: 2009/02/05 13:51:10 GMT
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