March Madness Malware
zveloLABS™ has been tracking search results on the story, and the NCAA Basketball Tournament in general, uncovering a great number of poisoned search terms. Searches for UNI Basketball or star player Ali Farokhmanesh return dangerous results leading to malware.
7 out of the top 10 results for UNI Basketball link to malware including the second result.
The rogue anti-virus payload has very low detection among anti-virus vendors. zvelo proactively detects and blocks blackhat SEO and search attacks similar to these using its automated systems and in-depth web site analysis. Any sites found are flagged as Compromised or Malicious, protecting OEM’s end-users within the zveloNET™ community.
Author: zvelo
Making the Internet Safer and More Secure. zvelo provides industry-leading cyber threat intelligence and URL classification data services. zvelo’s proprietary AI-based threat detection and categorization technologies, combines curated domains, threat and other data feeds, with the clickstream traffic from its global partner network of 1 billion users and endpoints to provide unmatched visibility, coverage, reach and accuracy. zvelo powers applications and solutions for the world's leading providers of web filtering, endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), brand safety and contextual targeting, cyber threat intelligence platforms, threat analysis, and more.
