Symetri Blog

I thought that worms were mainly for manipulating contents of PC's and their networks. This article on Security Pipeline indicates that there is a worm that modifies the infected PC so attempts to search using Google are directed to a spoofed site that looks like the real thing, but with different sponsored links to drive traffic to sites that hacker's designated.

So now we are looking at elaborate search engine marketing schemes that are motivated purely by financial gain. As if the industry wasn't complicated enough already...


Category: Search Engine Marketing and Optimization