Tag: SEO poisoning
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Tsunami response quick among cybercriminals
Miscreants releasing scams, phishing, scareware… within a matter of hours. As most of the world reels in shock at the devastation caused by this morning’s massive earthquake in Japan, it comes as little surprise that cybercriminals are already making the most of the news story the rest of the concerned population wants to learn about.…
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Morphing PDFs in new SEO poisoning trick
Harmless documents replaced by web pages containing malicious code. Researchers at F-Secure have discovered a new SEO poisoning trick in which attackers put harmless PDFs on a website to raise the site’s profile in web searches but, after the site has been indexed by search engines, replace the PDFs with web pages containing malicious Flash…