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suzi
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 Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: "Web Worm Whacks MySpace Users" |
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/06/web_2pointuhoh_worm_whacks_mys.html
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A complex, ongoing attack on MySpace.com users is turning victim's sites and computers into hosts for serving phishing scams and computer viruses.
Earlier this week, some MySpace user pages were seeded with computer code seeking to exploit one of three recently-patched security holes in Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. MySpace visitors who browse one of these pages are redirected to a fake MySpace login page aiming to steal the visitor's MySpace user name and password.
We've seen a similar attack against MySpace, but this new one has a twist. A scam victim's MySpace page is altered to include code redirecting users to a phishing page. Meanwhile, if the user's computer does not have up-to-date Microsoft patches, programs will be silently installed linking the victim's machine into a network of several hundred infected PCs used to host other phishing sites or serve up additional malicious software. |
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| That behavior suggests that a great many MySpace users don't consider their account worth protecting. This type of attitude is typical of the very people whose computers are most commonly compromised by criminals. The misguided notion that one's computer or MySpace account has no valuable information on it and therefore couldn't possibly be an attractive target for cyber criminals is the principle reason online crooks are so successful. |
Personally, I won't go to a MySpace page unless I'm in a virtual machine.
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paperghost
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: Re: "Web Worm Whacks MySpace Users" |
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| suzi wrote: |
| Personally, I won't go to a MySpace page unless I'm in a virtual machine. |
Its all that Emo music, right?
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Chao284
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Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Last Visit: 06 Aug 2011
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Location: Bremerton, WA
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: Re: "Web Worm Whacks MySpace Users" |
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| suzi wrote: |
| Personally, I won't go to a MySpace page unless I'm in a virtual machine. |
Its all that Emo music, right?
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Best have Active Scripting disabled when using IE, knowing it is really the only way to use it, and besides it is more or likely also the only way to prevent infection. |
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Nightmaretony
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: |
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no script and flash block for the win.
Oh yes, be prepared to report a heck of a lot of pages trying to sneak garbage onto your machine, too many of the hot chick things trying to play off as friends. Always fun to report such spammers....
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