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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 316 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: orkut scraps propagating malicious code comments Discuss  
Social networking sites with large user bases are attracting more attention as malicious code propagation vectors these days. There have already been a few worms that have circulated through social networking sites. However none of them were known to be spreading malicious code to computers. That all changed today when a worm was discovered spreading malicious code through Google’s Orkut service. This isn’t the first worm on Orkut, and the worm works in a similar manner to its predecessors by using “scrap read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 313 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: the orkut worm digging deeper comments Discuss  
Due to some confusion with this particular threat, we’ve decided to provide some further details on the Orkut worm we blogged on earlier in the week. The worm, recently renamed to W32.Scrapkut, uses active code injection as a vehicle to propagate to the Orkut friends of its unfortunate victim. Initially, a malicious scrap is posted to the victim’s scrapbook, containing a link to what appears to be a YouTube video: When a victim clicks on the link, they are redirected to an external site which prompts read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 313 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: orkut worm feeds scraps comments Discuss  
From social networking to social engineeringMalware authors have written a worm for Orkut, Google-owned networking site that's big in Brazil.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 270 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: google open suspect orkut albums brazil police comments Discuss  
'You only had to ask'Google is to give Brazilian police access to 3,261 private photo albums on social networking website Orkut, which may contain child pornography.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 120 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: fake twitter profile punts orkut attack comments Discuss  
Tainted tweets target twitsMiscreants are using a fake Twitter profile in a bid to spread malware that harvests login credentials for Orkut.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 42 days ago
Via: http://feeds.infoworld.com | Tags: hoax google orkut message links trojan comments Discuss  
Google's social-networking website Orkut has been used to spread a malicious Trojan, says Websense. read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 35 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: inet orkut clone id sql injection crosssite scripting comments Discuss  
d3b4g has reported some vulnerabilities in iNet Orkut Clone, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks and malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.http://secunia.com/Advisories/32937/NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information about exploit and patch availability, new and in depth research, and all other detai read more »
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