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Other => Non-Avast security products => Topic started by: polonus on July 27, 2018, 01:56:34 PM

Title: VirusTotal likes in the hands of Cyberthreat actors with Fake comments?
Post by: polonus on July 27, 2018, 01:56:34 PM

Fake comments on the VirusTotal community

Read: https://cyberwarzone.com/virustotal-likes-buy-them-here-and-initiate-the-perfect-cyber-attack/

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mentioned - earlier above, a lot of people in the branche use Virustotal as a source for information, some of these people have their souls in security, they understand what they are doing and where to look at, but there are also a lot of ‘sheep’ (sorry), these people do not perform their own research (first mistake) and because the lack of knowledge, they believe what is said on the web, these are the same people that download and install ransomware removal tools from fake malware removal sites.

polonus (volunteer website security analyst and website error-hunter)

Title: Re: VirusTotal likes in the hands of Cyberthreat actors with Fake comments?
Post by: mchain on July 27, 2018, 05:14:56 PM

Problem that exists everywhere, see attached.

Trust and then Verify, as bob3160 says.