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Phishers Targeting Google Adword Accounts

Gary Warner writes on Cyber Crime & Doing Time:

In recent months we have seen occasions where Advertisements placed with Google have actually pointed consumers to sites which would attempt to infect their computers with various forms of malware. A new Phishing Campaign discovered in the UAB [University of Alabama at Birmingham] Spam Data Mine may indicate this form of attack is about to get a lot worse.

Google has been very quick to identify and terminate the accounts of these malware advertisers, but what will their response be when long-time "known good" advertisers suddenly start having malware pop up in their ads?

This seems to be the focus of a new phishing campaign.

posted by Fergie @ 3/25/2008 04:46:00 PM