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Article from Rik Ferguson
Filed under: Web 2.0,malware | RSS 2.0 | TB | Tags: celebrity, cybercrime, malware, Twitter, web | 2 Comments
Demonstrating the speed with with criminals now captialise on internet memes, criminals are using the strength of a prank/rumour to push malware.
Page 1 of the Google search results for "Kanye West Death"
A rumour started this morning that Kanye West had been killed in a “bizarre car accident”, the origin of this rumour has apparently been traced back to the 4chan message boards (although that blog posting appears now to have been removed from Mashable). It didn’t take very long at all for this to be become the top trending topic on Twitter and also the top search on Google as worried fans searched for real confirmation.
It’s no surprise that in very short order we are already seeing poisoned search results being returned on page 1 of the results that could lead the unwary to trouble. Just because something didn’t happen, doesn’t mean it won’t be abused for criminal purposes, be careful where you click,
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[...] we are currently in a “golden triangle of mobile, social and real-time.” read more Searching for news of Kanye West’s Death leads to malware – countermeasures.trendmicro.eu 10/21/2009 Demonstrating the speed with with criminals now [...] |
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Wednesday, 21. October 2009 um 10:43 am
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Rik Ferguson and TrendLabs, Kevin Kanji. Kevin Kanji said: RT @rik_ferguson: New blog post: Searching for news of Kanye West Death (fake)can land you in trouble – http://bit.ly/44BmzB [...]