There are a couple of stories on The Register today about hackers manipulating search engine results so that searches for popular items would display links to sites serving malware. Google Wave and Microsoft Security Essentials were just two of the search terms that were targeted.
You have to admire the innovation of some of these hackers and wonder just how much money they could be making if they put their efforts into a legitimate business. The frightening aspect is that as they choose to work in the black economy the rewards available must be extremely lucrative to make it worth while.
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