November 17, 2009, 7:02PM

SEO Scareware Campaign Compromises 200K Websites

Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software (Inst_58s6.exe), commonly referred to as scareware. The massive blackat SEO campaign has been launched by the same people who operate/or manage the campaigns for the Koobface botnet. Read the full article. [ZDNet]


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