Dangerous Searches
Over at Exploit Prevention Labs they have been detailing the dangers of certain search terms. So I thought I'd see what they were talking about ... "Googling" up on of their terms, and well sure enough the third link finds a innocent site that has been hacked and some dangerous malware injected ...
What we find is several malicious sites have been injected into the above page ... thankfully the exploit is blocked by the HOSTS file ... "google-counter(dot)com" detected as Win32/Spy.Banker.CKW and is also a "Google.Warning" site.
I've mentioned these type hacks before and this is another reason why it's so important to keep your defenses updated. It's sad to say that this type exploit is becoming more and more prevalent, where it's easier for malware writers to hack servers than it is individuals. Most of the time these servers have not been keep updated and the rest of us suffer ...
Note: there are 10 other sites running from that IP address and they all have the same exploit, so this tells us the server has been hacked, not the above site. I've contacted them about this issue ... we'll see ...
Update: July 03 - I'm glad to report that the problem has been corrected ...