Beware of Bogus bin Laden Search Results
Beware of Bogus bin Laden Search Results
Posted 05/02/2011 at 10:39am
| by Paul Lilly
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So the big news over the weekend is that U.S. forces tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden in a gunfight, who was later buried at sea. To be clear, the 'PC' in 'Maximum PC' doesn't stand for 'Politically Correct' or else we'd be all over this. Rather than open that can of worms, as topics on politics, religion, and capital punishment tend to do, we'll instead point out that scammers are using bin Laden's death to spread malware. Color us not the least bit surprised.
According to CNet, it didn't take long for malicious webmasters to capitalize on the situation by spreading malware infested websites optimized to show up on Web searches related to the incident. Image searches and videos are proving particularly popular.
"As always, when big news appear in the press the bad guys start blackhat SEO campaigns in popular search engines trying to lure users to install Rogueware," security vendor Kaspersky said in a blog post. "It's not different this time, with the top news about Osama bin Laden's death being everywhere. The bad guys were quite fast and started to poison search results in Google Images."
According to Kaspersky, some of the image results redirect to malicious domains, at least two of which are serving up fake antivirus software.
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Joji
May 16, 2011 at 2:40pm
Billion of dollars spent every year to kill just one man when he was already dead long ago (possibly 2006-2007) from various illnesses.
Even Glados from Portal 1 knows the answer!
"Was it worth it? Because despite your violent behavior, the only thing you've managed to break so far... is my heart. Maybe you could settle for that, and we'll just call it a day. I guess we both know that isn't going to happen."
We all know what happened. Another fake Bin Laden death... /facepalm Let's see, this is the 9th time the government claimed that they FINALLY killed Bin Laden. Congratulations, here, have some cake!
Engelsstaub
May 03, 2011 at 3:39am
I knew when I read the headline of this article the conspiracy theorists would make irrelevant comments.
WTF would be the gain of making it all up?? Wouldn't Bin Laden just debunk it in a day with a tape or pic of him holding a newspaper with the headline?
Jesus H. Christ. Some people want so badly for everything to be a cover-up. How many birth certificates is the President supposed to produce for that matter...
This was actually an article about viruses and malware exploiting a popular Google search. "I 'hared' neither the 'whitehouse' nor the 'pentigon' could help morons with their obvious need of basic education." English isn't even my first language and you turds make me "lol."
Nimrod
May 02, 2011 at 9:55pm
lol, buried at sea, what a joke. Its so hilarious to see that no one seems to be falling for this. When i hared about his "burial" at sea i thought it was a joke. I had to hear it 10 times before i realized it was their offical story. Well any way, now the Muslims see him as a martar who beat up the USA.
don2041
May 02, 2011 at 6:00pm
WOW KIlled on sunday buried at sea all in one day what about the autopsy dna verification makes me go MMMMMMMMM sounds like WMD,s I,M sorry but I am very sceptical about any news about Iraq or Bin Laden
don2041
May 02, 2011 at 6:36pm
I have to ask who released these reports originaly. Did they come from the Whitehouse, the Pentigon
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