Bloggers Crippled By Viral Storm
Filed in archive Industry by noel on August 31, 2007

The Blogger attack is the latest in a series by a gang that has managed to hijack hundreds of thousands of PCs, reported BBC News. Security researcher Alex Eckelberry from Sunbelt Software first noticed the booby-trapped links turning up on Blogger on 27 August.
Eckelberry added it was not yet clear how the links were posted to blogs. The bogus entries could have exploited a Blogger feature that lets users e-mail entries to their journal. The blogs themselves could also be fake and set up solely to act as hosts for spam.
Commenting on the attack a Google spokesperson said: "The blog posts are likely from users' whose machines have been compromised by a virus. Among the other recipients of spam e-mails generated by the virus are users' mail2blogger accounts, which allow them to update their blogs via e-mail."
"The criminals responsible for this spam campaign are experts at exploiting social engineering to propagate their botnets," said Bradley Anstis from security firm Marshal
. According to the report, the spam messages have been changed to capitalize on news events and the viral payload has been updated many times to fool anti-virus programs. Permalink: Bloggers Crippled By Viral Storm
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