Spammers are using Google Code, a website where developers can host projects and codes, to distribute malwares. According to McAfee, they are creating lots of new projects with titles such as Live Free Sex Movies and clicking the image will take you to today’s fake codec download site. Repeated clicks will take you to an adult site. The codecs turn out instead to be password-stealing Trojan horses and programs geared toward stealing financial information for identity fraud.
A Google spokesman said the company has removed malware-distributing projects from Google Code and search results.
Source: McAfee, Yahoo News.
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