November 28, 2007
Big Three Search Engines Target of Massive Malware Attack
According to a security research firm report issued on Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search are currently under a large-scale organized attack campaign designed to steer online searchers towards malicious malware websites.
Chances are, if you do any significant amount of searching, you may even run across some of these dangerous search results. Hundreds of legitimate search phrases have already been found to pull up links near the top of the results listings that lead straight to the malicius sites. According to Sunbelt Software, they’ve already found 27 different domains, each containing up to 1,499 bad pages. That’s about 40,000 potential pages, which is a pretty big number. (more…)
