Attackers Target Google Hosted Applications to Spread Spam

MessageLabs, a leader in providing Web security and messaging services to global businesses, announced through its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008 that spammers were continuously exploiting Google hosted software to spread spam. Previously, spammers abused software - Google Pages, Google Calendar and Google Docs.

Security firm MessageLabs observed an important trend in July 2008 for malware-tainted pages on Google Sites as even a less skilled attacker could create such a Web page. A malware-infected page is created from a series of random numbers and letters resulting in a URL that is often hard to block by the conventi...

» SPAMfighter News - 8/23/2008