{"id":483,"date":"2007-07-03T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-03T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T05:41:00","slug":"malicious-codes-are-being-distributed-through-myspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/483-malicious-codes-are-being-distributed-through-myspace.html","title":{"rendered":"Malicious codes are being distributed through MySpace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In some cases, these pages have not been specifically created to spread malware, but have been modified to serve this malicious purpose by exploiting a vulnerability or design flaw without the legitimate user knowing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&rdquo;Cyber-crooks want to distribute their creations to as many users as possible. That is why they use networks that attract millions of Internet users around the world to spread their creations,&rdquo; explains Jeremy Matthews, CE of Panda Software SA.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Most of these malicious codes are Trojans, like the dangerous FireByPass.BA, which captures confidential information entered or saved by users on computers. This and other Trojans found in MySpace use rootkit techniques to hide their processes, which makes them even more dangerous.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This is not the first time that MySpace has been used to spread malicious codes. The first attack against social networks started in 2005, when a MySpace user created a worm (detected by Panda Software as MySpace.A) that allowed them to add a million entries to their contact list. This was, however, a low-danger infection.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The first attempt at causing a serious infection through MySpace took place at the end of 2006, when a worm was created that used the network&rsquo;s user profiles to spread. The worm infected everybody that visited a certain user profile.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Around that time, an advertising banner in MySpace exploited a Windows Metafile vulnerability to infect over a million users with spyware. Some days later, a worm was discovered at MySpace that inserted Java script in user profiles. When somebody tried to visit some of those profiles, they were redirected to a web page that blamed the US government for the 9\/11 attacks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PandaLabs warns of the appearance of several malicious codes that are using MySpace pages to spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}