Pulling a Fast One on Google is Ill Advised

Next on the list of "People who won't be on Google for Long" are these folks.

From the Wall Street Journal:

BOULDER, Colo., Oct 01, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Webroot, a leading provider of security solutions for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced that it has detected a new technique being used by hackers to lure PC users to fake blog sites containing malware.

What this means is that they are going to Google Trends, taking a look at what people are looking up, and then creating links to fake blog sites that purport to be about the most popular searches. When users go to these sites, they get hit with malware, which could be viruses or spam.

Despite the legendary reputation of your aveage basement hacker, it always seems to be wise to bet on Google. It shouldn't be too long before they get proactive about things like this as opposed to reactive.