Security company Symantec claims that its research has shown that an average of one-third of top search engine results on any given day contain harmful content.
Editor's Translation: Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
Its investigation into so-called SEO Poisoning, where criminals attempt to trick search engines so that users searching for current trends are redirected to their own pages, found that of the 30,000 pages checked each day at least 10,000 were poisoned.
Symantec's Khanh Tran said that the single most poisoned search term during the period produced results where over 90% had been poisoned. Of the 300 terms checked daily, over 250 would sometimes return results where 10% or more were poisoned.
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