According to security investigators, a fresh online attack on users of Google is deceptively taking victims onto fake anti-virus websites by exploiting Google's page-ranking service.

Elaborating on this latest scam, the researchers stated that at first the online attackers would break into a website; however, rather than placing attack codes on that site, they place web-links leading to other sites like porn or fake pharma sites, so that the rank of the search engine result is boosted up. However the technique is being applied towards raising the ranks of malevolent websites, but it has an uncommon twist of targeting Google users.

Lee Graves, senior technical services engineer at eSoft, stated that the website rankings that are being raised on search engines are currently delivering malware via a complicated sequence of redirects; nevertheless, these redirects and malicious programs are only delivered when visitors access the websites via the Google search links. For, if the URL addresses of the malevolent websites are directly entered into the browser then no harmful pages are accrued. Securecomputing.net.au reported this on September 23, 2009.

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