Hackers Target Tsunami Search Results 57
xsee writes "Only hours after the earthquake and resulting tsunami from Chile, hackers began manipulating search results to direct people seeking information on the event to infected webpages. Exercise caution as to where you get information on this tragedy. Chester Wisniewski describes what happened after he saw a suspicious site listed second on a Google search: 'It appears to be a normal website with information and videos about different Asian tsunamis over the past few years. It is difficult to tell whether this particular page was SEO-optimized, or was an innocent victim of a malicious script. SophosLabs got back to me that this page contains some obfuscated malicious JavaScript that we detect as MAL/ObfJS-R. This script was appended after the normal code on the page.'"
Color me unsurprised (Score:5, Interesting)
I saw clients hit with this behavior after the Michael Jackson hit the news and with each major story since. Each time a tragedy hits I tell my girlfriend virus/spyware cleaning calls are about to pick up a bit for me. Sad but entirely predictable now.
Can someone explain this to me (Score:1, Interesting)
How can a browser, via javascript on top of that, infect a computer with a virus/trojan/whatever? And can Javascript even write files to your drive?
Re:Can someone explain this to me (Score:1, Interesting)
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