Sun, Feb 28 2010 14:17 Don

Blackhat SEO turns to PDF with Chile and Hawaii disasters

Over 13% of all searches on Google looking for popular and trending topics will lead to malicious links and searching for the latest news on the earthquake in Chile and the tsunami hitting Hawaii are no exception. Both are now used to lure people into downloading fake antivirus products.

Usually the links in the search results look like ordinary links pointing to regular web pages. This time the bad guys have changed tactics to make their search results look even more convincing, by tricking Google into thinking it's a PDF file.

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