Air France Flight 447 Catastrophe Being Used to Drop TROJ_YEKTEL.AA
Without a doubt, the terrifying catastrophe of Air France Flight 447 has been among the top news headlines throughout the world. And even though the tragedy has not yet been resolved and many questions are left unanswered, cyber criminals are successfully using this issue in their malicious schemes. This time they are exploiting users' curiosity to find more information about the tragedy on search engines. Watch out because cyber criminals will use this opportunity to drop TROJ_YEKTEL.AA onto your PC then an installation prompt will be displayed for the fake Personal Antivirus.
How does the whole malicious attack take place? And what should you be aware of? Just imagine, you go to google.com and enter certain keywords related to the Air France Flight 447 crash, just to find some new useful information. You do nothing wrong - you don't open any unknown attachment or read suspicious messages. But even in this case cyber criminals can trick you. Through the use of a SEO (search engine optimization) poisoning attack, searches for crash related information can lead you to links that when opened can navigate you to various suspicious sites. This attack ultimately ends in the download of rogue antivirus software.
