Risk: Informational
A compromise that is moving virally across websites is making unwitting people who surf to them part of a botnet that redirects Google search results, a security researcher has warned.
During the past week, the number of websites identified as infected have almost tripled, according to researcher Mary Landesman, with real-time malware scanning specialist ScanSafe tracking the attacks since March.
Normally, web compromises die out after a few weeks, as search engines and anti-virus programs grow wise to them, but that is not happening this time.