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Search Engine Security Description

Prevent Blackhat SEO attacks by masking the source of requests to malicious pages

Blackhat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a growing problem that search engines are failing to combat. This Firefox add-on will prevent Blackhat SEO attacks by masking the source of requests to malicious pages, ensuring that the attacks are never delivered. Blocking SEO attacks before they ever reach the browser is critical as anti-virus engines typically have a very low detection rate for binaries used in the attacks.

The Problem

Attackers are abusing SEO in order to ensure that malicious websites are included within the top search results. They target popular search terms and given the resources at their disposal, the attackers are extremely effective injecting malicious results. The pages injected include malicious content that will target and infect PCs using a variety of techniques such as delivering fake antivirus, Flash/Java upgrades, codecs, etc. Unfortunately, search engines are having limited success in blocking such attacks and anti-virus vendors are failing at deploying signatures to detect the malicious binaries included in the attacks due to the rate at which they change.

For these requests, the add-on changes the Referrer header to a different value. This means that the requested page does not know that a given request came from a Google, Yahoo or Bing search. This is critical as Blackhat SEO pages only deliver malicious content (fake AV, Flash/Java updates, codecs, etc.) when requests come from the SEO results. Changing the Referer header, breaks the attack.
The add-on does not change the referrer if you navigate within the same site (for example, inside google.com), or if your Referrer does not include a Bing, Yahoo or Google domain.

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