Spammers Cloak Scams by Redirecting Through Google Services
Gregg Keizer writes on ComputerWorld:
Spammers are using thousands of Google accounts to camouflage their scams from antispam filters, a security researcher said today. He dubbed the practice "Spam 2.0."More here.
Rather than inserting links to the actual pages touting their products, some junk mailers are sticking in links from domains registered with Google Page Creator -- the search engine's free Web page maker -- or accounts with Google's Blogger.com service, said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense Inc.
"They'll send out a big long spam run, and include the URL they registered with Google Page or a blog service," said Hubbard. "But there's nothing on that page but a bunch of obfuscated JavaScript." The JavaScript redirects the user to the actual destination, where the spammer shills his products or services.
posted by Fergie @ 1/25/2008 05:44:00 PM
1 Comments:
This isn't exactly new, it's been going on for some time in heavy handed ways too.
I'v been watching Blogspot for months, tho more on the topic of malware, but the spam was overly obvious:
http://temerc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4121&p=3427871#p3427871
They are indeed improving tho as mentioned in the article.
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