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Beware Bogus Blogs


Cyber criminals are starting to use fake blogs to snare new victims.

The bogus web journals are being used as traps that infect visitor’s machines with keylogging software or viruses.

Filtering firm Websense said it had found hundreds of bogus blogs baited with all kinds of malicious software to snare the unwary.

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“These aren’t the kind of blog websites that someone would stumble upon and infect their machine accidentally,” said Dan Hubbard, Websense’s research director. “The success of these attacks relies upon a certain level of social engineering to persuade the individual to click on the link.”

(via bbcnews)

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