Security experts have found thousands of worms, trojans
and malicious files all over the internet, by using the Google
search engine.
Researchers from security firm Websense carried out a search for
malicious executable files indexed by the Google search engine.
A posting on the Websense Security Labs blog reveals that the
results included “thousands of pieces of malicious binaries, mostly
posted to newsgroups with false names that would normally trick a
user”.
It added,” We found many on forum sites, as well as regular
personal, educational, compromised, and underground sites.”
The search revealed variants of the Bagel and Mytob worms,
Trojan horses and other malware. It also turned up “several pieces
of spyware” on internet poker and casino websites.
The researchers said, “While we do not believe that the fact
that Google is indexing binary file contents is a large threat this
is further evidence of rise in websites being used as an method of
storing and distributing malicious code.”
