BLACK HATS POISON GOOGLE VIDEO SEARCH

Game for a hack

Miscreants have poisoned Google Video search results in a bid to trick the unwary into getting infected with malware.

Instead of video clips, researchers at Trend Micro discovered that around 400,000 queries returning malicious results that lead to a single redirection point, which leads onto an array of maliciously constructed websites designed to load malware onto vulnerable Windows PCs. The strain of malware spread using the attack – named as AQPlay-A by Trend Micro – poses as a Abode Flash Player update that’s supposedly needed to view video content.

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