Websense: Google IE toolbar 404 hijacking
February 15th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"…Another point of interest is how the toolbar handles connection failures. Google says, “When your server is unreachable, the Google Toolbar will automatically display a link to the cached version of your page.” We have previously written about how Google services are being targeted by the black hats for use as a resource to launch their nefarious campaigns.
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"Searches for news about Bhutto’s killing and the ensuing chaos in Pakistan listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec), said analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc. For instance, WebSense found such a site simply by using "benazir" to search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on Blogger.com, Google Inc.’s blog service, that were spreading the fake codec.
