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• Searching for Easter eggs leads to malware

  06.04.2012

  Blackhat SEO is a popular tactic for malware peddlers to distribute their wares to unsuspecting victims, and the weeks before major holidays are always a perfect time for poisoning search results for search terms tied to them.

• Firefox 7 search yields unwanted results

  28.09.2011

  Firefox is the second most widely used browser in the world, so we can be sure that malicious individuals are already working on ways to take advantage of yesterday's release of its latest incarnation.

• Blackhat SEO spam is a global problem

  01.09.2011

  If you have wondered whether to switch your go-to search engine for another - perhaps more localized? - in order to avoid the seemingly ubiquitous poisoned search results, wonder no more: Zscaler's senior security researcher Julien Sobrier has explored the options for you.

• Google search results much cleaner than in 2010

  29.08.2011

  It used to be that among the first ten pages of search results for popular terms, up to 90 percent of the offered links would take the users to a malicious page serving malware.

• iCloud search ends with fake AV

  20.06.2011

  Following Steve Jobs' announcement of Apple's entry into the cloud business, the term "iCloud" has quickly become a trending topic.

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