Jul 31 2009
Gumblar : Quietly affecting Web servers and Manipulating Google Search beahviour
Is this very often while searching any term on Google points you to some specific sites like Gumblar.cn or martuz.cn then it is very likely that your system is infected by some malicious scripts. In a recent research it have been found that Gumblar, a new Trojan, uses to manipulate the Google search resulting by quietly affecting the web servers or online applications. This Trojans then inserts its traces in Flash or PDF files handlers by using flaws in these files and anyone unaware of this flaw, when access these sites unwittingly download the infected scripts which temperes their Google behaviors thus pointing to the sites mentioned above. There is already thousands of Web servers detected with the known Trojan - Gumblar. What expert says to protect with such vulnerability there are advice to keep your browser fully patched or updated.
