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Google Video search results poisoned to serve malware

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
15 years ago2,835 views

"....
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 adult web site.
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The malware is reportedly worm-type W32/AutoTDSS.BNA!worm.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2433

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Everyday thousands of those videos (usually porn) are posted on Google Video and nobody talk about that...

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

This is just typical...

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