Google seems to have recently updated its Google Search services. Among many new features added the one that is very important from the point of view of malicious user is its capability to read through user comments. Googlebots are now capable of reading dynamic comments on sites posted by the users. Most of the framework or engine that help users to post comments are based on JavaScript and mostly is not visible to search bots. Google seems to have over come this challenge as its search bots are now able to execute the JavaScript or AJAX components and read through the dynamic comments which are then indexed in the search results. This will now result in new Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technique by online marketing machineries and at the same time could be of some interest for cyber criminals too.
As everybody is aware that cyber criminals are using SEO techniques to improve the position of their infected links in the search results of Google Search this new capability of Google Search bots can be easily misused by cyber criminals to influence the listing of their links in search results. This can be achieved by doing automated posting of most hot topics in user comments (that are not monitored) with the links to the compromised websites. One needs to wait and watch when this will start happening on the Internet.
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