RSS
Porn & Malware Penetrate Google Groups
By Daya Baran at March 04, 2008 0 Comments
Pornographic images, videos and infectious malware began appearing on Google Groups pages this weekend. Websense security is reporting that spammers have penetrated Google Groups and have achieved a 20% success rate cracking Google’s Groups security system. Google Groups is a free, online discussion forum available to anyone with a Google Account. Google uses a Captcha challenge to prevent spammers from using automated methods to create and abuse new accounts.
We have identified approximately 270 Google Groups pages with this porn. These pages push other porn pages for profit. While not all of the redirects go to malware sites, we did observe some redirects to a site which ultimately pushes a fake codec trojan, which if installed, results in a VirusHeat infection. We have alerted Google to the presence of these pages.” wrote Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software.
Labels: online security
