Search engines are being used by cyber criminals to peddle rogue anti-Virus software and other malware, an insecurity outfit has warned.

According to Finjan's Cybercrime Intelligence Report for 2009, some criminals using search engine optimisation techniques were making thousands of dollars a day by capitalising on typos and other misspellings. (They must be making a fortune on us... sub.ed.)

The crims pick keywords from Google Trends and push hacked Web sites so that they appear in the top ranking on various search terms.

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