Peaches Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Trick, No Treat: New Halloween Scams Hit the Web Oct 10, 2011 | 2:00 AM ET | By Matt Liebowitz, Halloween is still a few weeks away, but online criminals are getting a head start on the holiday with a batch of new scams aimed at infecting your computer and stealing your personal information. Researchers at the security firm Websense spotted one scam in which malware authors are spreading a rigged Web page called "Free Halloween skeleton templates." The crooks manipulated Google's search engine to make their phony page appear near the top of searches for "Halloween skeleton templates." It's a trick called "Poisoned SEO" or "Blackhat SEO," and is widely used to capitalize on trending Web topics. This particular Web page, Websense said, is not at all what it purports to be, and instead redirects visitors to what appears to be a YouTube video that claims to have nude photos of celebrities such as Emma Watson and Paris Hilton. Story - http://www.securityn...een-scams-1223/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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