Posted on 08/30/2007 7:18:25 AM PDT by PRePublic
Bloggers battered by viral storm
Google's Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries to some blogs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6970368.stm
The fake entries contain weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a Windows PC. Infected computers are being hijacked by the gang behind the attacks and either mined for saleable data or used for other attacks.
The Blogger attack is the latest in a series by a gang that has managed to hijack hundreds of thousands of PCs.
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Oh yeah, like I’m gonna click on that link!
LOL! I was just thinking that!
I run with wordpress and don’t use blogger.
Run Linux on your computer. Problem solved.
The fake entries contain weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a Windows PC. Infected computers are being hijacked by the gang behind the attacks and either mined for saleable data or used for other attacks.
The Blogger attack is the latest in a series by a gang that has managed to hijack hundreds of thousands of PCs.
My company website and my personal email accounts have been hit with this stuff since last April. Most is kid stuff from punks on another website.
Our software and firewalls handle it easily. Its laughable actually.
So far.
The internet is a dangerous place.
Ultimate Thread Hijackers?
Wordpress became not only easier to use but more GOOGLE-ble.
turn on your antivirus and don’t accept add-ons
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