Already a habit of cyber criminals to take advantage of major events in the action. Likewise, post-earthquake and tsunami in Japan. A report will be the action already started to emerge. Organizations that monitor progress and malware attacks on the Internet that was broadcast a warning.
One trick that soon spread is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This trick is meant for a search on Google about the Japanese earthquake will bring evil sites. One of the keywords that a target is ‘most recent earthquake in Japan’. Search results bring up a link to a fake antivirus. TrendMicro reported malicious programs MalFakeAV-25 or TROJ_FAKEAV.PB been stalking users who stray from the search results. Cyber criminals also use the page up to entrap their victims. This is for example in the form of pages that pretend to have a video of tsunami in Japan.
Therefore, watch out for the page up with a title like this: ‘Japanese Tsunami Tidal Wave Footage RAW! ‘ and the like. Page that, according to TrendMicro, will bring up a picture that seemed to link the video. If clicked, the user will be prompted to enter a phone number.
In addition, the account will automatically be victim to like the page and display a link to a malicious page that in his Wall.