Scareware scammers Rickroll Digg
Thu, Feb 12th, 2009 |
Digg.com has become the latest Web 2.0 service to be abused by hackers in order to punt malware.
More than 500,000 bogus comments have reportedly been posted on the site in order to drive traffic to 15 malware-hosting domains that promote a rogue anti-virus (scareware) package. Panda Security compares the attacks, mounted by miscreants through bogus or compromised legitimate accounts, to Rickrolling.
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