Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: News/search links can lead to malware...
Arrgghh...
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/compromised-sites-heath-it-up/
January 23, 2008 - "No sooner had the world learned of the untimely death of actor Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) than malware authors started using the late actor’s name as a social engineering ploy. Within hours of these reports... a couple of malicious URLs that turn up when users key in the search terms ‘heath’ and ‘ledger’... Piggybacking on newsworthy events is not new. A month ago, malware authors also bucked on the assassination of Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. In this case, malware authors simply used news of Ledger’s death to jumpstart massive redirections as they know many people are wont to do searches on this hot news item..."
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