Cybercriminals taking advantage of Swine flu scare

To be an internet goon nowadays, you just don't need to know hacking, you must also good in Search Engine Optimization. This is what the blog from PandaLabs uncovered. Cybercriminals manage to take advantage of the recent swine flu scare by using Blackhat SEO techniques to enable malicious websites to take top position in search engines. Cyber-crooks uses keyword with "swine flu" to persuade victims and redirect them to malware sites.


Qouted from PandaLabs blog:

Just look what we found in Google: a search engine which offers information about the swine flu.



When clicking on the results displayed by the search engine, we are redirected to porn sites where we can view videos. However, to view a video we are required to install the last version of a player.

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