Posted 12 Jan 2009 — by Arun
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Spammers are using Google Code, a website where developers can host projects and codes, to distribute malwares. According to McAfee, they are creating lots of new projects with titles such as Live Free Sex Movies and clicking the image will take you to today’s fake codec download site. Repeated clicks will take you to an adult site. The codecs turn out instead to be password-stealing Trojan horses and programs geared toward stealing financial information for identity fraud.
A Google spokesman said the company has removed malware-distributing projects from Google Code and search results.
Source: McAfee, Yahoo News.
Technorati Tags: Google Code, Malware, McAfee, Yahoo News, Codec
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Posted 07 Jan 2009 — by Arun
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If you are a Linkedln user, use caution if you see a celebrity profile.
According to McAfee,
A Google search reveals that several hundred fake LinkedIn profiles from nude “Kirsten Dunst” to nude “Hulk Hogan” exist already. The rogue profiles look all alike, with a picture of the celebrity and three links to the parts of the “nude video”.
The linked websites contain obfuscated script code which decodes to a simple browser redirection. This obfuscated script code is proactively detected by McAfee as “Exploit-IFrame.gen.c” already.
when an unsuspecting user gets tricked to follow the lure, he will end up on different malicious websites trying the classical social-engineering tricks of either the “missing video codec” or of showing a fake AV scan and telling that the user his computer was infected with malware and offering a “free” AV scanner software, which in fact is the real threat.
So beware when you access celebrity profiles.
Technorati Tags: Linkedln, McAfee, Celebrity, Malware
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Posted 23 Jul 2008 — by Arun
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Google’s Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world’s malware hosted on the web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos.
The security firm claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers’ comments.
Beware next time when you read a blog at blogger.
Source: PC Pro.
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