ZDNet exploited via Google Docs

January 19th, 2009 by Shara Grifenhagen | Category: Spam Favorites | Comments

Google Docs has really been exploited a lot in the last few months. In December, there was the outbreak with unconnected links, in November we saw dating and pharmaceuticals and last May, we first wrote about it.

A recent attack has exploited the popular tech site, ZDNet by stating that the document has been recommended by their Tech Update service.

As seen in the example above, a recipient could be easily tricked into believing that the message is a tech article recommended by someone in the community; both the “Sender” and the closing line refer to the Tech Update service.

Upon clicking the link, however, the document being hosted on Google Docs is actually an advertisement for International Rx.

What WILL those guys think of next!?

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  • ZDNet exploited via Google Docs http://tinyurl.com/7vef5w
  • Nice blog post. You'd think Google would have gotten it right after they bought Postini, wouldn't you?

    I keep hounding Google about their awful GMAIL SPAM filter as well. I still get false positives on a weekly basis, and unfortunately I use GMAIL to run my business. It's pretty embarrassing to have to tell a client he was mistaken for SPAM.

    One of these days Google will wake up and give Commtouch a call...
  • ZDNet exploited via Google Docs http://tinyurl.com/7vef5w
  • John Potter
    We're really embarrassed about this. The Spammers found an old application that we thought was shut down in 2004. We shut it down for real as soon as we found out about the problem.
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