This is the latest News to digest in the Search and Internet Security Industry. The Inquirer highlights the events of the hack happened. I am sure that this must be a regular hacking on the index but this is the first time Google Watchdog identified it.
It appears that some search results are returning Chinese sites, which are easily identified by their .cn suffix. These malicious .cn sites, which appear before the valid returns, give users more they bargain for:
"When a punter clicks on one of the .cn sites, they are sent to an entirely different page which attempts to install one or more pieces of malware on the user’s computer.
The Google Watchdog whines suggestively that the the faked sites are redirecting the Googlebot to a location where content can be indexed, while at the same time recognizing normal users and redirecting them to a site that includes the malware."
This information is going to alert us more while clicking on the links on SERPs. Google users should be little careful while clicking on the results by avoiding click on the .cn TLDs (Suffix Top Level Domain).
