Black hat SEOs have managed to obtain malicious sites ranking for terms like “apple ipad rumor” and “apple tablet” across Google and other search engines. When users visit this site, they are encouraged to download some software which can taint their machines.
Here’s a Google screenshot showing the malicious results from Symantec:
Black Hat spammers naturally follow hot news items to try and get people clicking during to their sites. Google regularly acts quickly to block these sites from appearing, but constant new attacks and domain changes by the spammers mean it’s tough to wipe out all together.
Symantec is caution users to look at “iPad” results carefully and only visit trusted news sites and know information sources.
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