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Blackhat SEO continues to ravage search results

Every day cyber criminals are exploiting search engines to display high ranking malicious search results. Targeting hot topics allows for cyber criminals to improve infection rates for their money making Rogueware (pdf) schemes. Below is an example of the attack we observed today.  
 Most targeted search terms:

Dallas Cowboys
NFL
School
Emmy Awards
Autumn Equinox (Mabon)
Atlanta
News

..The full list of targeted keywords can be downloaded here: BlackhatSEO3.txt

Sample search result:

Redirection to fake security (Rogueware) site:

Rogueware: Adware/PCDefender

Tag cloud of targeted terms:

 

Source: PandaLabs

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