Several reports in Kaspersky user forums seem to indicate that the security software manufacturer was recently compromised by cybercriminals trying to punt fake security software. Fake anti virus software is most often spread through booby-trapped web pages, designed to show up high in search results for popular or newsworthy terms. ...
If true, this compromise of a legitimate download site, particularly a security vendor could represent an important new change of tactics by the scareware pushers. Kaspersky users in three separate forums...have complained that links to download Kaspersky’s home user security software from their USA download site were redirecting them to a malicious web page pushing fake AV known as Security Tool. ...
According to forum posts Kaspersky have stated that there was no compromise of their servers. [Date: 19 October 2010; Source: http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/kaspersky-download-site-spread-fake-av/]
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