Thursday, January 31, 2008

Google Blogger criminals used to spread malicious programs

"Hackers" zamusorili company Google Blogger blogging about telephony - posted there malware, pornographic pictures, or just spam.

"Google Blogger used as a mechanism for the dissemination of malicious software" - said Ken Steinberg (Ken Steinberg), CTO and president of Savant Protection. Attackers are likely to automatically generate blogs with built scripts. Blogs with meaningless names and the contents were obviously created with the help engine, he continues.

"It happened suddenly. Most attacks carried out through blog comments or communications "- he says. Steinberg noted that some of the fake blogs contain malicious code. One of the most common ways to introduce malware - use a buffer overflow when watching the movie. By viewing the blogs can be set automatically download pictures and videos, in which contamination can occur PCs victims "- he says.

Representatives of Google argued that the incident is under investigation, written on darkreading.com. "Google takes the security of its users very seriously, and we always try to protect them and to make Blogger better - said one of the company's representatives. -- We will work expeditiously. If you get the message about harmful content on your blog, I quickly investigate the issue and remove it, for that would be grounds ".

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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