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Robert Vivas | August 24th, 2009
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Spammers continue to take advantage of the Internet tools and applications Google provides for free. In the past we have encountered spammers abusing Google Group Pages, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Docs to host spam content. Recently spammers have started using Google Translate. Google Translate is an excellent tool that enables users to translate any text, Web page, or document, and convert the native text to the specified language requested.

With recent medication spam offer attacks, spammers have discovered a way to exploit the use of Google Translate. Here is one example:

  1. Hijacked URL directory space from a legit domain. In this example they used www.ipanel.tv with the directory path www.ipanel.tv/images/news/news.htm to use as a redirect to host the intended spam domain...