Google’s free website analysis service names as “Google Analytics” is now used by most spammer to track their spam campaigns. Spammers are taking full advantage to Google Analytics to track visitor interaction with their Websites, from where they are coming, user’s activities on spammer’s website and also spammers using Google Analytics goal conversion feature.

Using Analytics, the spammers can go to market with clear facts talking about the success rate of their database. Cybercriminals are no different in terms of motivation to normal business people — they want to maximize their profit for the least effort. So, metrics is a clear way to demonstrate value to their clients

IBRS security analyst, James Turner told ZDNet.com.au.

Spammers are also using Google online office Suite program that is GoogleDocs. The main advantage with GoogleDocs URL’s is that they are easily bypassed by firewall filtering. URL’s containing spam website is blocked by firewalls.

Someone has taken advantage of this to get past the filters of software security vendors. That URL would specifically need to be blacklisted by software security vendors, but obviously they don’t want to block the Googledocs.com domain

MessageLabs’ spokesperson said.

Turner said whitelisting, as opposed to blacklisting, technology holds promise for dealing with spammers using Google Docs or other typically trustworthy URLs — whitelists work by allowing approved Websites to be accessed rather than blocking known “bad” sites.

A more interesting aspect of this is if you’re using a whitelisting product such as WhiteTrash,” he said. The open source software, developed by the [Australian] Defence Signals Directorate, started distribution last year via open source initiative SourceForge.

It basically enables users to validate the purpose that they’re going to a website for. So if the site isn’t in the whitelist, then Whitetrash will take the user to a holding page and say, ‘Please verify that this is for business purposes’. It changes it from being a technology problem to a HR one because you’re getting users to take accountability for their actions

he said.

Source : Zdnet

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