[Nottingham] A Google Webmaster Scam?

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Wed Dec 19 17:42:46 UTC 2012


>>> Poking around in the js, you can see that there are src parameters
>>> to http://ozecqnxm.qhigh.com/terafegwqegwg.cgi?5
>>
>> Indeed so! A quick grep has soon found that. Looks damned suspicious.
>>
>> Thanks for that. So how did you find that one?
> 
> Probably quite easily if anyone else has used Chrome to try an access
> the NLUG web page.  It popped up a giant red warning page telling us all
> to steer well clear of it, and referenced the above URL as the source of
> malware.
> 
> (Sorry, I was too lazy to send a screenshot at the time and was pretty
> sure it would result in a rant and an uproar on here eventually anyway.)
> 
> ;-)

Duhh... I'm using Firefox and got no such thing... Likely stopped by my
DNS blocking and NoScript?...

So how long has that been flashing up?!

(Before I start searching all the backups to find the hit date...)

Cheers,
Martin

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