The first thing I’ve said this morning when Asier told me that there was a BlackHat SEO attack on Moshi Monster was “What the hell is a Moshi Monster?” Well, it seems that they have been out there for a while, the best description I’ve found is the one at Gizmodo: “a mash of Tamagotchi, Pokemon and NintenDogs”
And these are the lovely little monsters:
And this are the poisoned results you obtain while searching them on Google:
Once again, this attack is being used to distribute the rogueware known as Adware/MySecurityEngine.
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1 question, if i have WOT http://www.mywot.com/es, it will help me to detect this type of attacks??
Yes, it will help you detecting malicious URLs