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The continuing problem of malware being advertised in Google Adwords

Google continues to have a problem with malware being advertised in Google Adwords, in this case, for the trojan Antivirus XP 2008

Sat, 23 Aug., 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

Hijacking Google

Something cute that we saw with an Antivirus XP 2008 install (to clarify, this is a fake error page generated through a running process from the Antivirus XP 2008 Trojan)

Fri, 27 June, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

Explosion of spam pages on Google Pages

It’s been a problem over at Google Groups. Now Google Pages is undergoing an attack by spammers.

Wed, 21 May, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

Google Pages Porn Malware Invasion Continues Unabated

Wow, what a cluster f*. Hundreds of thousands of pages, if not over a million.

Examples (warning: graphic language):

Thu, 17 April, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

Google Groups continues to be inundated with malware-pushing porn

As we’ve seen before, this continues to be a problem on Google Groups: Fake posts pushing porn that pushes malware (fake codecs)

Sat, 05 April, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

Google adwords phishing

Here’s a new one: Google Adwords phishing.

Tue, 25 March, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

Seen in the wild: New scam pretends to be Google

No news in having another trojan doing typical host redirects, but in this case, we found the use of Google’s name to be mildly interesting

Fri, 21 March, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Technology

Hard core prOn invasion on Google Groups

We’ve just started seeing a hard-core porn invasion on Google Groups.

Sun, 02 March, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

The Google Groups prOn invasion continues

Well, there’s more. It’s like cockroaches.

Sun, 02 March, 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

Incredible -- C-NetMedia still continues its grossly deceptive practices

It was last week, on the 14th, that Ben Edelman showed that C-NetMedia (not to be confused with CNET) was using highly deceptive advertising to lure people to its sites.

Tue, 19 Feb., 2008| Posted in Hackersblog| Section: Security

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