Poisoned Google Video Search Bring Malware


	Poisoned Google Video Search Bring Malware

BartendingBear

1-29-2009 1:49 AM

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BartendingBear says:

I find the commentary about Web 2.0 SEO attacks interesting. We see quite a bit of that here at Clipmarks.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8b35f1d6-c36b-4a2a-b832-519c4c511e97/6BE53843-5F9E-436C-8E77-CF2BB903725F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2433" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2433" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.zdnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2433">From the real-time syndication of hot <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1995" linkindex="48" set="yes">Google Trends keywords</A>, maintaining <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2405" linkindex="49">AdWords campaigns</A>, to the plain simple blackhat search engine optimization tactics, cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to acquire traffic by enjoying the clean reputation of each and every Web 2.0 property. From <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2358" linkindex="50">LinkedIn</A>, <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2097" linkindex="51">Bebo</A>, <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1852" linkindex="52">Picasa and ImageShack</A>, to <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1640" linkindex="53">Twitter</A>, everyone’s targeted efficiently using automated account registration tools.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2433">During the last couple of days, a single group involved in a countless number of blackhat SEO campaigns across the Web, started massively targeting Google Video with a campaign that has already managed to hijack approximately 400,000 search queries in order to trick users into visiting a bogus and malware serving (<A href="http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/346548a92a122e3dc70fd12bcd316a7e" linkindex="54">W32/AutoTDSS.BNA!worm</A>) adult web site.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2433">Google’s Security Team has been notified and action is expected to be taken anytime now.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BE53843-5F9E-436C-8E77-CF2BB903725F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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