The incident is indicative of increasingly frequent SEO poisoning attacks based on news.

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This last attack, SEO poisoning, was what infected my Uncle: a web search was poisoned with results from compromised legitimate web sites.

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Other than trying to scare you into buying every single product the company has ever released, the paper highlights the growing problem of Black Hat SEO, or SEO Poisoning, which (if done right) sends malware-ridden links closer to the top of your Google search results.

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The software, originally spread through classic methods such as spam, has moved on to more sophisticated attacks by providing links to infected web sites through popular social media content such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, by feeding a corrupted advertisement into an ad network for web sites, and by poisoning search results called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning.

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