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Hackers use SEO in malware scam

Hackers targeting search engine results have been using SEO techniques to compromise prominent websites in the latest malware attack using IFrame redirects.
 
ABC, Forbes, Wal-Mart and Sears are among the big-name victims, whose websites have been hijacked in search results pages to redirect users to third-party sites hosting rogue software.
 
The attack, believed to be unusual in the way that it attacks search results, works by infecting search queries with the small inline frames that redirect the user to the malicious pages.
 
Leading security consultant, Dancho Danchev, estimated that about a million queries could have been poisoned in the attack, which started over two weeks ago.
 
He also said that Google had been endeavouring to clear infected pages from its cache.
 
But he warned that the attack was far from over.
 
There would definitely be other sites, he added, with high page ranks targeted by a single search engine results poisoning in combination with IFrame injections.

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