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Websense Security Labs Alert : Emma Watson (Harry Potter) - rumor - Google SEO poisoning technique

July 2009 by Websense

Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that a rumor claiming that the actress Emma Watson, made famous by the Harry Potter series of movies, died on the scene of a fatal car collision is spreading rogue AV sites on the Internet. The rumor itself is spreading rapidly through social networks such as Twitter.

The attackers have targeted the Google search engine via the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning technique: when a user searches for terms related to Emma Watson’s death, the fake AV sites are returned as high as the fifth result on Google.

With the recent release of the latest movie in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, malware authors are attempting to capitalize on people’s curiosity.

WSL will be issuing an alert on this topic shortly to http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/alerts.aspx with screen shots of the Rogue AV site and screen shot of the poisoned search results from Google.


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