[pchelpers] News:Google Code Abused by Hackers

Fake projects are used to distribute malware

By Lucian Constantin, Web News Editor

9th of January 2009, 10:45 GMT
McAfee warns that lots of fake Google Code projects have been created by
cyber-criminals in order to push malware to unsuspecting users. The
projects promote adult videos that prompt users to download malware in
the form of fake video codecs.

Google Code is a popular service used by numerous software developers to
promote and host their projects. A similar service, called MSN Spaces,
is being offered by Microsoft, and has been abused by hackers in the
past. Chris Barton, research scientist for McAfee, points out that, in
addition, Google automatically indexes the projects in it's search
engine.

More here:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Code-Abused-by-Hackers-101575.shtml
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