Posted on February 9th, 2008 at 7:40 pm by Avatar
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Cyber-criminals have been found to be using search engines to inject unauthorized code into search engine results that target or use familiar sites such as Torrent Reactor and ZDnet leaving many vulnerable to attack. They have capitalized on the process where search engines collect and collate relevant results placing code in between the reflected results making searching on them quite risky for many. One of these so-called piggy-back cases had a site associated with Russian Business Network and having visitors tot he site install a fake antivirus program which obtains information on the unsuspecting visitor. These types of attacks can have more dangerous consequences such as the depositing of malicious code into servers through workstations used by employees who are at work.