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September 22, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Google being used to bypass anti-spam defenses
Dshield reports that spam containing embedded Google searches are being used to bypass anti-spam filters.
Spammers are using embedded google search strings in spam emails to generate search results that contain malicious web sites as the first result. To summarize, the Google search string contains keywords that narrow the search results to the intended web sites.
Interesting read. Read the whole article here.
Posted by Roger Grimes on September 22, 2007 03:49 AM
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This is nothing new...lol.
But Google Mail (Gmail) has been blocking them fine for me :)
And then simply forwarded to KnujOn, SpamCop, and SIRT - where they can go after the proper culprit (the sites/domains on the top of those search results I'm guessing, NOT google....)
Posted by: Adam at September 23, 2007 05:27 PMThis news comes about 6 months late. At least from the spam I've been getting
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