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Bloggies Award Site Hands Out Malware
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-03-11
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Ahead of their awards ceremony at SXSW Interactive, the website for the Bloggies received a nasty dose of code injection.
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The addition of malicious code added a JavaScript to the now-sanitized Bloggies site. If infected, a visiting browser would have received a Trojan on their system, and likely more malware to follow.
Security vendor Trend Micro said the JavaScript on the infected Bloggies site would connect to a domain, and download a JavaScript QuickTime exploit. That exploit then connected to a domain and downloaded the Trojan file.
"Whoever orchestrated this attack played on timing, knowing that people would more likely visit the Bloggies Web site on the eve of the awarding ceremony itself," JM Hipolito wrote at Trend Micro's blog. "An act of sore losers maybe?"
The Sydney Morning Herald said other subdomains for prior year Bloggies showed the same instances of infection.
Keeping one's system up to date with antivirus protection can help against these threats. Everyone should be patching their system whenever operating system or application fixes become available to address exploitable flaws.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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