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Archive for 29/11/2007
Hackers hijack web search results
29/11/2007 by swordfish.
A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted. The booby-trapped websites came up in search results for search terms such as “Christmas gifts” and “hospice”. Windows users falling for the trick risked having their machine hijacked and personal information plundered.
The criminals poisoned search results using thousands of domains set up to convince search index software they were serious sources of information.
The booby-trapped websites were thought to be in operation for about 24 hours before Google began stripping them out of its search index. Some of the trapped websites are believed to be still turning up in searches carried out on Yahoo and MSN Live.
Source: BBC News
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