Rogue Headlines in Google News

A spam campaign is currently abusing Google News.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) black hats are injecting "jailbreak" headlines into an iOS thread.



Here's a view of the full coverage:



The so-called "news" link readers to schemes offering iPhone jailbreaks.



Here's an iPhone view:





The good news: it appears that current SEO abuse is limited to spammers.

The bad news: where spammers go — exploit kits are surely soon to follow.

Let's hope Google's search engineers plug this hole quickly.

On 17/06/13 At 09:12 AM