Websense Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker(TM) Network has detected that search terms related to the Bloom Energy and its Bloombox Fuel Cell have become the latest target for Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks.

Bloom Box is a breakthrough technology in the energy sector that could revolutionize the way electricity is generated today. As people become interested in finding more information on this technology, related search terms are currently gaining momentum, and as they do so Blackhat SEO attacks are starting to climb up the search result listings.

At the moment, according to the VirusTotal report only 10% of antivirus products are detecting the threat.

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From InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr:

"On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software (aka exo.performance.network), in interviews for a number of stories regarding Windows and other Microsoft software topics. Devil Mountain Software is a business Kennedy established that specializes in the analysis of Windows performance data. There is no Craig Barth, and Kennedy has stated that this fabrication was a misguided effort to separate himself (or more accurately, his InfoWorld blogger persona) from his Devil Mountain Software business.

Integrity and honesty are core to InfoWorld’s mission of service to IT professionals, and we view Kennedy’s actions as a serious breach of trust. As a result, he will no longer be a contributor to InfoWorld, and we have removed his blog from this site.

Over the past 10 years, Kennedy has contributed valuable information on Windows performance and other technical issues to InfoWorld and its readers — insight and analysis we still believe to be accurate and reliable. Based on our discovery, however, we cannot continue our relationship with Kennedy. Questions about this matter may be directed to Kennedy at rck@xpnet.com. We apologize to our readers."

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papamike writes:  

System: WinXP

I doubt that many of you out there have even heard of this threat, but it's real and it's out there to destroy your day. And to keep thing interesting there are varing versions of IS2010. I will brag and tell you that since 1995 I have never had a virus on any of my computers. But, while visiting a website that I frequent in the evening hours to watch old movies, IS2010 jumped all over my computer.

Now if you read up on the threat you will find that it's identified as a Rogue Virus. That is something that sends out fake alerts to get you to usually purchase a virus removal software program to remove the "fake" virus. BE AWARE these programs usually do nothing. Actually I found a website a few minutes ago that offers a program that rids your computer of this threat. You download the program, it scans your system showing threats then informs you that you will need to purchase the software to cleanup the problems. Go here to learn more: http://www.virusremovalguru.com/?p=258

What makes IS2010 so dangerous is that it loads a small executable onto your system which downloads fake alerts in rapid succession and it also changes your wallpaper, freezes your desktop, and prevents you from changing the wallpaper that has been changed to one of theirs which tells you that your system is infected. And each time you reboot it loads everything again until the .exe file is destroyed.

The .exe file is automatically triggered and downloads other viruses, trojans, rogue software, and a rootkit all in such a way that your virus scanning software can't keep up. The user possibly gets extremely taken away by how fast things are happening. Your desktop is frozen you can't download anything except download the program that they claim will solve all of your problems. DO NOT download or purchase it.

Here's what I did to get rid of this thing.
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whitehat writes:  

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Keep in mind this is only a alpha release and not a RC (release candidate) , so it isn't production ready (yeah right).

Have a lot of development fun and visit our site and forum frequently for new updates and questions/answers to this great module.

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SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA38545

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/38545/

Critical: Highly Critical

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"With all the buzz this week about Google Buzz, we were just waiting for malicious activity to show up on the newly launched service. We didn't quite expect it to happen this fast. Today we saw the first spam using Google Buzz to spread a message about smoking.

The spammer is already following 237 people, and we can only imagine that he or she has sent similar messages to all of them. This particular message leads to a site hosted on a free Web hosting service talking about how to quit smoking.

When Twitter was launched, it took a while before it was used to send spam and other malicious messages. In this case, Read More...