Since blogs are the major source of information for web users nowadays, they seem to have become an obvious target for malware infection. Troublemakers (cyber criminals, cyber hackers) keen to benefit from this fact have been exploiting Google’s Blogger.com to bring about computer problems. In a few cases, they have implanted code into current blogs however in a more sophisticated plan, they have also brought about utterly latest, highly realistic blogs, which are claimed to distribute computer tribulations, and directing traffic to all of such blogs with spam email messages.
Fortinet claims that genuine-looking blogs on topics as all-embracing as “Star Wars, school, furniture, Christmas, cars and girlfriends” are now being generated to spread a range of script-initiated malware, and the most important point worth noting of the sites are that the visitors cannot make out the risk of these sites, which are numbered in hundreds. Though they seem to be genuine, and look all of these sites have been specially brought about to pull the wool over visitors eyes.
Fortinet also claims to have come up with the examples of the sites, comprising one for a so-called fan of the Honda CR450 motorcar, which is aimed at making effort to infect visitors with the Wonka Trojan. Where as in another, the bogus blog redirects visitors to a storefront boasting of being Pharmacy Express, which is a phishing site that has put a hem on a host of spam emails spread by the Stration worm.
