Rogue Anti-Spyware Targets Sesame Street's Big Bird

Most of you have seen by now that Google's search engine page features Sesame Street characters to honor the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. Google follows the news and trends of the world and honors significant events in its logo.

Unfortunately, the idea of malware distributors abusing Google Trends is not new. The bad guys have once again demonstrated that they, too, can take advantage of Google Trends. This time their target is Sesame Street's birthday.

With the fortieth anniversary of Sesame Street, the bad guys have begun their attack. Searching for keywords such as Big Bird's birthday and Big Bird on Google displays pages with compromised sites.

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