Potential risk on Google Search

Security experts on November 28 officially launched a campaign to guide users to distinguish malicious websites listed in Google Search's search results page.

Whether users perform a search on Google Search using regular phrases - an "how to cisco vpn dial in" or "cell phones" example - but on the results page displayed later there is no shortage of websites. toxic.

'The number of websites is extremely large ,' said Alex Eckelberry, Sunbelt Software's CEO. ' We have detected 27 malicious domains. Each domain name mentioned above points to 1,499 different malicious websites. Calculating the number of malicious websites will not be less than 40,000 pages '.

Those who own these malicious websites often use measures such as 'comment spam' or 'blog spam' to increase the level of access that boosts the website's ranking on Google Search. As a result, those websites are displayed more and are in a higher position on Google Search's search results page.

There is currently no evidence that cybercriminals spend money on Google search keywords. However, it is certain that they have done many tricks to 'kidnap' control of many legitimate websites to help them spread malicious code.

' They find all the tricks to appear on Google and redirect any user who doesn't mind clicking on their website to other malicious websites ,' Mr. Eckelberry said.

Most users often do not often notice and doubt the search results on Google by linking to those websites are displayed with keywords that are very relevant to the desire to search and bring top level domain names. very loud '.

Once you have access to malicious websites, users often face a fake notification that lacks certain features in order to display the website well. If the user clicks on the message, they will accept a lot of malicious downloads.

For example, Sunbelt Software has found that there are websites that are willing to install up to 25 different types of malware on user PCs - such as spam, rootkits, password stealing, trojans . - if they accidentally Click on access. Any PC that is not fully installed with patches will have to suffer unpredictable consequences.

Security experts recommend that users should carefully consider each time they decide to click on a search result link. There are malicious websites that are fully recognized and warned by Google. Users should avoid these websites and regularly upgrade and install the latest fixes for software on the PC.

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