More Malware Blogspot Spam Blogs
Posted in Glad to see David Utter, SecurityProNews and WebProNews writer, cover this on blogs and Google based on Facetime’s FSL research team.
Chris Boyd at FaceTime’s SpywareGuide blog said this has been the shift in tactics by the people who were putting redirects to their sites into compromised blogs. Hundreds of profiles on Blogspot were created in July to host spam blogs and pull in victims.
Some of the blogs in question sent browsers to hardcore content. Others sent people to equally objectionable content, with Zlob trojans awaiting the visitor.
Apparently Googled was notified and offending blogs taken down for “review”.
Chris and Peter at Spywareguide undercover this javascript injection…I am assuming in the header…have not seen source yet.
Sunbelt notices it too…and it hit this security researcher.
The question on my mind is that javascript redirects have been an issue before as Peter and I tangled with this complete mess around the World Cup…and Zlob was involved yet again- thrown from a dicey PPCSE arbitrage outfit out of Russia…
The problem has been pointed out before- history should be the teacher.
Wonder if the results Chris and Peter found spilled over into MSFT’s search as in the original World Cup, but with a slightly different setup being a compromise? It looks very similiar.
More from MVP Sandi Hardmeier…
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