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Blogger Users Under Storm Advisory
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-08-29
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The Storm worm has been appearing in comments on blogs hosted on Google's Blogger platform.
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It's an enticing little come-on that Sunbelt's Alex Eckelberry discussed on the company's blog today. Perhaps a little ironic, too, as Eckelberry also uses Blogger for his firm's blogging.
"This i not good. If this video gets to her husband your both dead," the lure reads. A fake link to a YouTube video instead brings the Storm worm onto a system; Eckelberry understatedly calls it "not a fun thing."
He suggested the way the Storm worm seems to be getting on so many Blogger blogs could be through the mail-to feature. This allows a person to email a blog post to their blog, rather than going through the Blogger software to create one.
These links have appeared in blogs written in a variety of languages. Eckelberry's examples included a screenshot of search results for the text in question, and it could be seen appearing in results for Yahoo Japan groups.
The Storm worm has been circulated in spam emails under a variety of subject lines. It looks like someone, possibly the group behind the worm, has chosen to try a new avenue of infecting PCs around the world with Storm.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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