YouTube latest Storm hook
Fake video links aim to pull in yet more victims.
The never-ending stream of 'Storm' attacks continued over the weekend with a new tactic - the latest spammed
email campaign contained links claiming to lead to videos on highly popular entertainment site YouTube.
The simple emails follow in the wake of several similar campaigns, disguised as offers of
site memberships and e-cards celebrating
various events. The text of the mail has a vague message along the lines of 'I can't believe you did this', and
provides a link looking like a standard entry on the YouTube site, which allows users to post their own
videos for free and was taken over by Google last October.
The links in fact lead to compromised systems hosting fake web pages, which use various exploits aimed at common
vulnerabilities to access and infect the visiting machine. Details and screenshots of the latest tactic
are here
(from McAfee), here (from Sophos)
or here (from WebSense).
28 August 2007
Tags:
exploit, social engineering, spam, storm, trojan, youtube.
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