More than 100,000 web pages hosted by Google Sites are being used to trick netizens into opening business documents booby-trapped with a remote-access trojan (RAT) that takes over victims’ PCs and hands control to miscreants. Infosec outfit eSentire on Tuesday said it has noted a wave of so-called search redirection shenanigans, in which people Googling for business forms and the like are shown links to web pages published via Google Sites – a Google-hosted web service – that offer a download of whatever materials they were looking for.

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