Mon, Jul 27 2009 16:12 Don

Rumors of Emma Watson's Death Leading to Rogue AV Sites

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that a rumor claiming that the actress Emma Watson, made famous by the Harry Potter series of movies, died on the scene of a fatal car collision is spreading rogue AV sites on the Internet. The rumor itself is spreading rapidly through social networks such as Twitter.

The attackers have targeted the Google search engine via the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning technique: when a user searches for terms related to Emma Watson's death, the fake AV sites are returned as high as the fifth result on Google.

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