. Last February, Gmail's downtime, caused by a service outage, became the perfect medium for hackers to try to distribute malicious files to unknown users according to security firm Trend Micro.During this time searches for the string "gmail down" were delivered to the Google Group page also called Gmail down as the first result. Rik Fergurson, a researcher at Trend Micro, reported that the page was distributing a banner with images related to pornography, which also led to a pornographic website. But the most dangerous thing is that that link on the aforementioned website led to malicious files.
All malicious links have been blocked by smart protection network and Google Group was suppressed.
Source: vnunet.es
