Fraudsters Gain Top Google Rank With IFRAME Injections!
Today is a busy day for the internet security industry. I just received this news in a Google alert:
“Online fraudsters have continued to expand their efforts this week to inject iframe attacks into the optimized search results of major Web sites.”
“The attack abuses a common practice among Web sites — caching search queries — an activity designed to boost their rankings among major search engines, such as Google, according to security researcher Dancho Danchev. The attackers inject common search terms and an iframe script designed to send victims to other sites hosting malicious code. The search term and iframe redirect get cached in search engines such as Google.” - securityfocus.com
I’m not really sure how that stuff works, but it amazes me that big, professional sites can be taken advantage of, then again, the “poisoned” sites are not actually being hurt. Maybe they’re enjoying the publicity?
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