• SC Magazine, Friday, January 15, 2010 1:45 PM

Is it a surprise to anyone that unscrupulous people have launched black-hat SEO campaigns to exploit the earthquake in Haiti? Dan Raywood provides several examples of malware being used to infect computers of people wanting to help those in the devastated country.

Websense Security Labs, ESET, Symantec Hosted Services, among others (Panda Security, which isn't mentioned in this post,) discovered that searches on terms related to the earthquake returned query results leading to rogue anti-virus programs via maliciously engineered search results.

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