Peaches Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 PandaLabs: Cybercriminals Creating Search Engines To Lure Victims Search engines lead users directly to pages designed to infect or defraud them, according to PandaLabs May 06, 2009 | 04:09 PMGLENDALE, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today announced that it has uncovered evidence that cyber-criminals are starting to create their own search engines and use them to lead users to malicious pages, often created for distributing malware. This new trend underlines how cyber-crime is becoming increasingly professional. Previously, cyber-crooks would use malicious SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or "blackhat SEO" techniques to improve the ranking of their pages among popular search engines. Now, they are beginning to use their own search engines which lead users directly to pages designed to infect or defraud them. One such malicious search engine, detected by PandaLabs, has already received approximately 195,000 visits. "Full article DarkReading - http://tinyurl.com/cgcpak Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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