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Targeted Blackhat SEO Attack against Ford Motor Co. (Updated)

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  14 April 09 10:29     Recently, we have talked about Blackhat SEO fueled Rogue Software Campaigns . Today, we have uncovered a similar campaign with over 1 Million links all targeting the Ford Motor Company . These attacks work by misleading search engines to falsely promote

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Blackhat SEO Aggressively Targets Halloween Related Keywords

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  28 October 09 01:00     Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have been hard at work in poisoning search results to increase traffic to their campaign sites. Today, we identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign, which is currently targeting Halloween related keywords aggressively.

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New Blackhat SEO attack exploits vulnerabilities in Wordpress to distribute rogue antivirus software

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  23 April 09 06:50     Over the past week we have seen a new Blackhat SEO technique emerge to exploit vulnerabilities in the popular Wordpress blog software. Two of the sites we identified were TheWorkBuzz.com, a website owned and operated by Career Builder (CareerBuilder.com),

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Blackhat SEO Fueled Rogue Security Campaign

Posted from Oscar Cavada at  24 March 09 05:15     Today we observed yet another Blackhat SEO campaign fueling the distribution of the System Security Rogue Anti-Malware from Pandora Software. Blackhat SEO is a method used by criminals to trick search engines into displaying their content ahead of other

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Swine flu and the Blackhat SEO techniques

Posted from Oscar Cavada at  05 May 09 01:12     You should be careful when you’re looking for information on the web. Not everything is as it seems, and even more when the Blackhat SEO techniques are so frequently used, which enable malicious websites to be positioned in search engines. And why

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Blackhat SEO continues to ravage search results

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  23 September 09 01:26     Every day cyber criminals are exploiting search engines to display high ranking malicious search results. Targeting hot topics allows for cyber criminals to improve infection rates for their money making Rogueware (pdf) schemes. Below is an example of

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Blackhat SEO Attack Targets Obama's Speech

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  10 September 09 01:52     Using search engines to browse the Internet these days is a dangerous endeavor. Cyber criminals are keen on gaming search engine algorithms and are able to quickly divert innocent news seekers to malicious websites. Today, WIRED reported that cyber criminals

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Blackhat SEO Campaign Targets 2009 Nobel Prize Winner

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  09 October 09 02:20     We’ve identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign today which targets President Obama as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner among a thousand or so other search terms. Clicking on a malicious search result yields the typical Rogueware campaign. Search

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Cyber Criminals Target Air France, YouTube, E3, Microsoft, Project Natal, and more…

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  03 June 09 01:53     It seems like these days every other news breaking story is paralleled with a similar Blackhat SEO fueled Rogueware campaign. Today, Luis Corrons and I were talking about Microsoft’s recently announced Project Natal when his Google search for a

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Black(hat) Friday

Posted from Sean-Paul Correll at  20 November 09 10:01     If you plan on shopping online for "Black Friday", or "Cyber Monday", you might be in for more than you bargained for. Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have their blackhat SEO campaigns optimized to take advantage of deal

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