It seemed like, with every trend comes a bad worm. Well the bad boys certainly have been hooking up with the trends of Apple’s successful iPad sales. Using a method known as “spamindexing”, or in layman’s term “poisoning search results”, cyber criminals manage to trespass our computers that are not properly secured.
This was quickly spotted by global computer security company Symantec, which monitors and analyze search engine results for malicious URLs. The conclusions that they come up with are:
- On average at any given hour, 3 out of the top 10 search trends contained at least one malicious URL within the first 70 results.
- On average, 15 links out of the first 70 results were malicious for search terms that were found to be poisoned (had at least one malicious URL).
- On average on any given day, 7.3% of links are malicious in the top 70 results for top search terms.
- The most poisoned search term resulted in 68% of links leading to malicious pages in the first 70 results.
- Almost all of the malicious URLs redirect to a fake anti-virus page.
This proves that not all of the results u get from Google is safe, and therefore we advice readers to practice cautions whenever accessing the Internet. Like Wiseman says, “prevention is better than cure”.
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