Spam and Virus Sites Infesting Google SERPs

[mandy]

It appears that a spammer has found out how to infiltrate the Google index without being caught. Here's what is happening in a nutshell:

    * Some searches (very specific phrases, and I won't list any of them right now - Google knows which they are) return results with a large number of .cn (Chinese) sites.
    * The .cn sites are often scraped content from legitimate U.S. websites
    * The legitimate sites are being ranked below the scammed .cn sites for these competitive keywords...

full article: http://www.googlewatchdog.info/2007/09/s...oogle.html

[mandy]

More:

According to Roger Thompson, a Exploit Prevention Labs researcher who specializes in finding innocuous search terms that return toxic results, the perpetrators are mainly succeeding through sheer brute force. Spammers register thousands of domain names and create thousands of landing pages for each one and then embed thousands of legitimate sounding keywords in each one. Then they lie in wait. Once a page is entered into the Google index, the miscreants enter code into the page that causes it to redirect to a site that installs malware.

"We've seen a real surge of this thing over the last couple of months," Thompson says. "By putting out just the landing pages, they get up near the top of the search results and potentially get a lot more victims before they get shut down."...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/01/...iltration/