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Buyers Beware-Of Olympic Scams
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Monday, February 06, 2012:
Websense researchers investigated some of the Olympic ticket scam sites. They found that most of them had multiple backlinks, suggesting they have been widely spammed over the internet in addition to being promoted via Google AdWords. A "backlink" is a hyperlink that links to a specific webpage. Both legitimate webpages and spam URLs often try to set up as many backlinks as possible to drive traffic to their sites, and the number of backlinks a site has may affect its ranking in search engine results. Like the hyperlnks in this post, links can be used to provide additional context, information, or examples.
One URL yielded 500 backlinking URLs in categories such as Adult Material, Gambling, Proxy Avoidance, Potentially Unwanted Software, Suspicious Embedded Links, and Malicious Embedded Links.
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Comment from Carl Leonard, Senior Security Research Manager (EMEA), Websense Security Labs :“We’re used to cybercriminals jumping on the latest events to fool people into clicking on malicious links and the Olympics is no different. The excitement around ticket sales for this major international event has prompted scammers into action. Cybercriminals have sponsored ads in Google that can lead to sites containing around 500 backlinking URLs. These links have been found to lead to anything from adult material, gambling and malware. Businesses need real-time security protection to prevent users visiting what they believe are trusted links and stop cybercriminals potentially stealing confidential data.”
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