SELaplana >> Google, Security >> Exploiting The Exploitable

Everybody who has business online really looks for ways to gain visitors for their sites. Some of them advertise their businesses, buy textlinkads, sign-up for AdWords and the likes, and some of them exploit the exploitable.

Actually, my SEO experiments on Pinay Sex and other Porn things can be considered as an exploitation. It just happens that what I did doesn’t harm anything.

Now, it’s not also surprising if Virus Writers will exploit the Google Ad Links as reported by Exploit Prevention Labs:

Google searches such as the phrase BetterBusinessBureau OR “Florida Business opportunity Law” or “Modern cars airbags required” will turn up these dangerous sites (more on that below). Last night our researchers discovered that one of these rogue links was the number 1 sponsored link when people entered the phrase BetterBusinessBureau.

How did these writers exploited the Google Adwords?

Okay, there are actually many ways of doing this. And few of these ways are:

1. A virus writer can register by himself into the Google Adword and sign-up for the services.
2. A virus writer will write a virus (or a worm) that will target Adword users and will do the things as revealed by SERoundtable:
   • It appears that some external program gained access to his computer. The program then logged into his AdWords account, set up several ads that redirected to “places like orbitz.com and business.com” and also tried to install “activex remote desktop program” on those computers through the redirects (to infect other computers). Then it blocked access for that computer to login into AdWords by setting the local host files to 127.0.0.1 adwords.google.com (which means if someone on that computer tries accessing adwords.google.com, they get a not found). This prevents this computer from logging into AdWords to see if changed have been made to the account.

Now, as of today, the exploited adlink has already been fixed by Google.

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