Peaches Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Viral web infection siphons ad dollars from GoogleOnly getting bigger 14th May 2009 20:49 GMTA compromise that is moving virally across websites is making unwitting people who surf to them part of a botnet that redirects Google search results, a security researcher has warned.During the past week, the number of websites identified as infected have almost tripled, according to researcher Mary Landesman with real-time malware scanning specialist ScanSafe tracking the attacks since March. Normally, web compromises die out after a few weeks, as search engines and anti-virus programs grow wise to them. But that's not happening this time."The growth rate is very unusual for this type of compromise, and the fact that it's escalating so quickly is what has us concerned," Landesman told The Reg.Story The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/14/viral_web_infection/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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