"Google’s code-hosting project is the latest free service to be abused by web spammers", writes Chris Barton, McAfee researcher. According to Barton bad guys are creating plenty of new projects with this type of website that redirects user to fake codec download site.
The assault follows a bout of the same kind of abuse against Microsoft's comparable MSN Spaces beta site dating back a year. Barton states that the difference is that Google appears to automatically index code projects.
Barton's blog post can be read here.
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