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 [...]
Recently, we’ve seen spammers exploiting legitimate tools (or what appear to be legitimate) for illegitimate activities like we mentioned with Google Docs, Flickr, Blogger and Blogspot. The common theme here? In each case, the spammers tried to cloak the fact that they are actually spammers, in order to circumvent automated anti-spam engines that use traditional [...]
I’ve written about the phenomenon of spammers hiding their content in Google Docs before, and we’re starting to see new outbreaks using this trick. Why should spammers bother to serve up their content on Google Docs, rather than use their own hosting locations? Well, we saw what happened when McColo was taken down, which demonstrates [...]
There’s been some talk about the latest incarnation of spam that perverts legitimate sites for the purpose of commercial spam, a subject we have been discussing for a while on this blog, starting back in January. A few interesting articles on Google Docs spam came out this week based on some outreach by MessageLabs. (InternetNews, [...]
