Thousands of web pages manipulated in large-scale scareware attack

[Peaches]

18 November 2009, 18:44

Thousands of web pages manipulated in large-scale scareware attack

These 106,000 results lead to malware. Don't click the links. In a post on its company blog, security firm Cyveillance reports on a large-scale scareware attack which appears to have involved manipulating more than 200,000 harmless web pages (for additional information about scareware read our feature article "Thieves and charlatans - Rogue antivirus products" in The H Security channel). Google's search engine reportedly plays an important role in the attack, pointing users to the compromised web pages when certain search terms are entered. According to the report, the search terms used in the attack are not the usual suspects, such as "Britney Spears", "Obama" or "Paris Hilton". Google apparently only provides links to the infected pages when a longer combination of words is entered.

Full story & screenshot at Heise security - http://www.h-online....ack-863349.html