Comments on: Spammers Use Bing to Bypass Filters, Spam Bad Links

By: Spam Campaign Exploits Open Google Redirect « Solera Networks | Threat Research Blog

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:05:24 +0000

[...] by Google. Redirection scripts aren’t typically left wide open. In fact, when I reported a similar campaign that was exploiting an open redirect in Bing to Microsoft, to their credit, they shut down the redirect the same day. That was two years [...]

By: Filters for fridges

Filters for fridges — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:33:46 +0000

Thank you for the information. I had my share of this kind of emails but didn’t really bother opening them, though they do get pass my spam filter.

By: Andrew Brandt

Andrew Brandt — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:44:08 +0000

And I've had lots of people post spam comments, like this one, to this blog as a way to improve SEO for one web site or another. Thanks for letting us know exactly where to lower the reputation score.

By: Search Engine Optimi

Search Engine Optimi — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:16:44 +0000

OMG! I’ve had many of these types of email spammers before. Thank you for shedding light about this kind of spam.

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Cover Your Assets on Data Privacy Day « Webroot Threat Blog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:49:52 +0000

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By: Andrew Brandt

Andrew Brandt — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:50:41 +0000

@ Hzj_jie: Obviously, link shortening services pose a potentially grave security risk for spam recipients, whether or not there’s a redirection on the other end of the short URL. I’m not arguing with you there. And you make a good point about how filters could block an undesirable domain. But filters are reactive, and can’t respond instantly to sites that pop up then are gone within hours. And I don’t agree that in this case, this was an attempt at search engine optimization; I’m not even sure what you mean by “static rank,” because if the past year has taught me anything, it’s that no site’s search ranking remains the same for very long.

Rogue SEO has been using the domain in the referrer URLs for some time to feed bogus information to search engine spiders or crawlers in an attempt to push malicious links up in search results. The guys doing it are very good at it, and that game of whack-a-mole isn’t going away anytime soon. Search engine rank appears to be dynamic, fluid, and easily manipulated.

By: Hzj_jie

Hzj_jie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:24:40 +0000

this is not so true, under view in this page, all of the url shorten services are more dangerous to end users. they do redirection, meanwhile, you cannot know what the real url is before click.
and sites cannot bypass firewalls or filters by using this way. 301 redirection will give browsers an information to request another page, so the destination url can also be blocked by firewalls and filters.
the only impact here is, some sites can get a higher static rank on search engines, if Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines do not change there algorithm.

By: Peter Koen

Peter Koen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:41:37 +0000

Another great post.
Thank you for the information, Its good to see such quality posts.
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Keep them comming.

By: WebRoot reports new way for spammers to promote Google home business kits

WebRoot reports new way for spammers to promote Google home business kits — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:34:08 +0000

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