Blogspot now used for malware, too
We’ve all known for a while that blogspot, the popular blogger platform from Google, has been a huge source of spam sites, or rather sites that re-direct to spam sites. Steve Rubel wrote about this as long ago as last year. But did you know that for the past several weeks, the Commtouch Detection Center is seeing thousands of new Blogspot domains each day?! Subjects include downloadable software, pornography, enhancers, pharmacy, and….malware. So blogspot is not just for spam anymore, folks, clicking on a blogspot link can be hazardous to your computer’s health.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 am
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