Hackers poison 4th of July search results to sell scareware
USA Today, By Byron Acohido
Be very alert using Google, Bing or Yahoo Search to look up recipes for your Fourth of July celebrations this weekend. Achal Khetarpal, research director at antivirus firm CyberDefender, just typed "4th July dessert recipes" as a Bing query and got to this innocuous, but highly invasive result:
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