The attack takes advantage of Google s page-ranking feature. An attacker hacks a site, but instead of embedding exploits on the hacked site, they put links to other sites to boost rankings for malicious sites. Google users in particular seem to be the targets, according to researchers at eSoft’s Threat Prevention Team. The scam works like this: An attacker. Read the full story here.. Read more from eSoft.com: http://www.softsoft.com/threatpreventionteam/tweets.com.
Source: https://threatpost.com/rogue-av-scam-targets-google-pagerank-092309/72282/