Google's Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries to some blogs.
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.
Attack pattern
Security researcher Alex Eckelberry from Sunbelt Software first noticed the booby-trapped links turning up on Blogger on 27 August.
Now many hundreds of blogs on the site have been updated with a short entry containing the link.
Mr Eckelberry said 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.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Bloggers battered by viral storm
via the BBC.... read more there (and no this isn't a booby trap link thing).
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I think this is what happened to one website I read, @ thequakeragitator.blogspot.com. It was mystifying to me at first because it wasn't like the usual "splog" where a whole blog address is taken over (so ALL content is replaced) - it still has some of his previous content but the entry that shows up at the top is chock full o' spammy links. (But, even weirder, when you first go to the site the entry at the top shows what was its original text - an article about the child, from Maryland if I recall correctly, who died from a lack of dental insurance, but then the screen changes and it's all the spam links.)
That aside, good to see you blogging again! Nothing against your co-bloggers, but I'd been missing seeing your name here. :)
wow, that is scary. It is so annoying how many scams you get everywhere.
JB, yes, it's scary for sure.
Victoria, thanks so much. I am kind of burnt out from blogging - and am excited to be posting about upcoming events etc... I wish I was in a more thoughtful mood to write something original.
Hope you are well.
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