Converting currency on Google can lead to malware attack

[INDRANIL]

We all know we can covert currency rate in google but wait now converting currency on Google can lead to malware attack .

One of the guys at the North American branch of SophosLabs recently stumbled across some Euros following an overseas trip, and wondered how much they were worth in dollars.

So he did what any of us would probably do. He Googled it.

215 euro to usd

Google very cleverly and kindly tells you what it believes the conversion rate to be, but you're also given a number of search results -

This same old SEO poisoning, where bad guys create poisoned webpages related to certain search terms in the hope that you will come across them and infect your computer. So guys be careful while playing with the pages which keywords are related to currency conversion . Other wise... No need to tell .

More & source .

[Bearcat]

Thanks for the heads up Indra! Lucky for me, the US currency is being devalued at such a rate, that nobody wants it anymore!

[hellnoire]

XE.com

Done.

[JayCub]

Thank you for the heads up Indra, often we have checked the euro against stirling, but i will just use the link provided by Paul as it takes out the gueswork of searching for convertors.

[INDRANIL]

Hmm nice site.