[Intrusions] Google security concern?

[Daniel Wesemann]

Empty Floatbag wrote:

>Has anyone else noticed that some seemingly "normal"
>searches on Google return completely unrelated sites
>which attempt to compromise a system through the
>browser?  
>  
>
Yep, indeed I have noticed. Chasing malware, I've tracked quite a number 
of incidents back to a seemingly innocuous search that the user made in 
Google.  I also concur with your observation that many of these sites 
appear to be hosted in Russia/Ukrania.  Google Spamming is nothing new, 
though, and I doubt if these pages were deliberately added to Google in 
order to propagate an exploit. It seems to me rather that the pages were 
spammed into Google to toll their "virtues" (usually fleshtone pictures 
or  mp3/software piracy), and that hosting the exploit is a "3rd party 
addition" to the site content as a by-product of sloppy security 
maintenance on these boxes. 

But I'm all for conspiracy theories :-), so if anybody can help to find 
ties between these sites and/or indications of deliberate Google 
spamming to propagate an exploit, I'm happy to join the hunt.

-daniel gcia