{"id":237444,"date":"2010-01-27T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f85\/malicious-web-site-malicious-code-apple-tablet-announcement-black-search-engine-optimization-38679\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:59:54","slug":"malicious-web-site-malicious-code-apple-tablet-announcement-black-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237444","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Web Site \/ Malicious Code: Apple Tablet Announcement Black SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>01.26.10 04:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Websense Security Labs? ThreatSeeker? Network has discovered that search terms related to the forthcoming Apple Tablet announcment have already become the latest target for Blackhat <acronym title=\"Search Engine Optimization\">SEO<\/acronym> poisoning attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glgroup.com\/Council-Events\/Teleconference--The-Apple-Tablet-Announcement-(3-00-PM-EST-12-00-PM-PST-20-00-GMT)-7935795.html\" >Apple&#8217;s official announcment<\/a> which is scheduled to happen today, there has been a great deal of anticipation and speculation over the Internet. As people become interested in finding more information on the product, related search terms are currently gaining momentum, and as they do so Blackhat <acronym title=\"Search Engine Optimization\">SEO<\/acronym> attacks are starting to climb up the search result listings.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a screenshot from Google Trends showing how one of the targeted phrases by Black <acronym title=\"Search Engine Optimization\">SEO<\/acronym> &quot;apple tablet announcement&quot; is starting to gain momentum:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Assets\/AlertMedia\/Apple_Tablet_Alert_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Black <acronym title=\"Search Engine Optimization\">SEO<\/acronym> attacks start climbing up in search ranks, clicking on such result leads to a Rogue Antivirus site:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Assets\/AlertMedia\/Apple_Tablet_Alert_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Assets\/AlertMedia\/Apple_Tablet_Alert_3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#000000\">The file in the rogue AV site has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/analisis\/a2554d34db4ab9b672f20e0609cad88a27b27b12e94dfac413e43f50afeba769-1264543491\" >30% detection rate<\/a>. If the file is installed it reports non-existent infections and disturbs the user with on going pop-ups. In order to &quot;clean&quot; the system the rogue program is offered for a price:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Assets\/AlertMedia\/Apple_Tablet_Alert_4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Assets\/AlertMedia\/Apple_Tablet_Alert_5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#000000\">Websense\u00ae Messaging and Websense Web Security customers are protected against this attack.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Alerts\/3538.aspx\" >http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/con&#8230;erts\/3538.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01.26.10 04:00 PM Websense Security Labs? ThreatSeeker? Network has discovered that search terms related to the forthcoming Apple Tablet announcment have already become the latest target for Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks. In the lead up to Apple&#8217;s official announcment which is scheduled to happen today, there has been a great deal of anticipation and speculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}