Google Pages Used to Host Trojan Horse

[engine]

Google's Web site hosting service is apparently being used by hackers to try to steal money using a malicious program, a security company said.

The Trojan appears to have been noticed before its authors have managed to launch an attack, Websense said. The company has not yet detected e-mails or IM links leading back to the Trojan, which is designed to steal bank details relating to certain financial institutions.

Google Pages Used to Host Trojan Horse [pcworld.com]

[rollinj]

Ha, I wonder how many of these things have been running on Geocities / similar lower quality free web hosts who might not be looking for this as much.

[Essex_boy]

Hmmm.

Beware everyone.

[followgreg]

That's good news for MS...

[blend27]

I still see #1 result returned by google is the site for keyword that is #1 keyword phrase searched on our niche + word STORE.

goes like this

keyword1 keyword2 +store

that has a link as # 2 to a a site that tries to install a trojan on your machine.

[blend27]

just in time for

[webmasterworld.com...]

[rohitj]

its happened to everyone--and will continue to happen as you extend more services that encourage user-driven content. it'll usually roll over with minimal damage, especially with the right PR people.

[bwnbwn]

I did a search yesterday and in the natural listing in Google was a site random numbers subdoamin that when selected a popup came up looking like a microsoft screen stating an error in the operating system has happened. The next and delete both went to a download page I bet was a keylogger install. Beware out there serious stuff.
I turned it into Google and it is removed but wonder how many are affected.....