HI5.com virus/worm – genial evil mastermind behind it!
August 20, 2009 at 3:35 am, ScorpionoI hold a hi5.com account mainly because I like staying in touch with my friends and girlfriend.
Today, I’ve just got a friend request by some girl with the add description “Hey, I got you from hi5”.
I have no photo of myself on my account so it started very very fishy, I accepted the ad and launched a conversation.
Basically, this acts exactly as the old IRC drones use to, send a “picture” containing file.jpg.exe and spread the worm across.
The thing is, I find the bot master very smart, simply because (if) the emails were harvested automatically and the worm would send the requests and everything on itself.
I expect the spreading rate at HUGE, because the main target (Hi5 audience) consisted of kids and divas won’t even notice anything fishy.
Hopefully, hi5 will take action against this type of worm, or maybe it wasn’t even harvested from hi5.com, who knows?
Hi5 worm, ingenious yet deadly.
Oh, by the way, parents.. they could grab future credit card transactions so careful what your kids are doing on your PC!
Remind me of my old days.. *sigh*
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