Natasha Richardson’s Death Used as Lure for Spreading Scareware
According to Sophos, an online security company, computer hackers are taking advantage of people's interest surrounding the news of the death of Natasha Richardson, an English actress who met with an accident lately.
The company says that the online criminals are rapidly creating malevolent web pages and filling them up with key phrases pertaining to the death of the actress. The strategy that exploits content picked up from genuine news websites is designed to obtain a high rank for websites hosting malicious software on search engines.
Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos, states that cyber criminals rely primarily on speed while creating a page they intend to be displayed high among search engine results, as reported by SCMagazine on March 19, 2009. According to Cluley, hackers believe that there would be more people interested in searching news about the middle-aged actress now than after two weeks.
