BBC Site Used as IE Attack Lure

capt turnpike writes "The hits just keep coming... according to eWEEK.com, someone is using actual excerpts of BBC news stories to 'launch drive-by downloads of bots, spyware, back doors and other Trojan downloaders.' One example is a story blurb masking the download and installation of a keylogger -- with no user interaction. And it doesn't even tell you it loves you."

Comments

Erm, why is this a story?

[baldass_newbie]

I mean, a known bug is exploited and it's using quoted text from the BBC site.
If they do it again tomorrow with text from nytimes.com would that be another story?

Re:Erm, why is this a story?

[i_should_be_working]

Maybe slashdot will be spoofed next. That will be a story. That could be the story. Emails that read:

"Tech website Slashdot article links to vulnerability exploiting websites. Read more here"

And whoever submits it to /. won't even have to rephrase it.

Re: Erm, why is this a story?

[Black Parrot]

> If they do it again tomorrow with text from nytimes.com would that be another story?

And will it be safe to read about it at BBC?

Re:Erm, why is this a story?

[Firehed]

Wouldn't this end up creating some sort of infinate dupe-loop and tear the fabric of space-time?

Re:Erm, why is this a story?

[richdun]

Possibly. It'd be the first exploit that required soul-sucking registration to activate it.

Now I'm worried....

[Black Copter Control]

From TFA:

Click here to read more about drive-by attacks on the Internet Explorer vulnerability.

And if I click there, just what do I get?

(Times like this I'm glad that I use linux ... Until, of course, the next zero-day firefox hole, at which point I'll switch to konqueror or..).

Re:Now I'm worried....

[the-amazing-blob]

And if I click there, just what do I get?

I don't understand why everyone is so afraid of these things. They monitor us, keep track of us. The kind of thing a girlfriend would do if we had one. Think of keyloggers and the like as your new Girlfriend (beta 0.2, results may vary)

WOW!

[jav1231]

An IE vulnerability! That's news!

Fake URLS Suck!

[Giant Ape Skeleton]

According to This article, using bogus URL's to trick people is still the most effective social engineering trick in the book. Of course, that may not apply to those in the Slashdot community :p

Re:Fake URLS Suck!

[MBCook]

I clicked your link.

It's an apache configuration page!
I'M BEING HACKED!

AAAAAAaaaaahhhhhh......

I'd better call the FBI!

Re:How is this news?

[TommyBlack]

WOW! It's not like they took over the BBC site and used it.

No, of course not. I'm the one who did that.

Click here to read an interesting BBC story about it

My SITE HAS BEEN HIJACKED

[Billly Gates]

MY name is James Taylor and I clicked on your link and then the web went down all by itself!

It was taking over by a hostile native american terrorist organization called apache running on Gentoo gnu/linux. Damit hacker! I need to call the FBI over and sue you for this.

What harm in bundling the browser?

[chill]

So, what harm is there in bundling the browser with the OS shipped on 90% of the retail PCs in the world? What harm is there in integrating the browser into the core of the operating system?

Apparently, if you bundle a half-ass product where only lip service was paid to security, the cost is greater than anyone realizes. IE was crammed in there with the sole purpose of crushing Netscape and dominating the Internet market. It was rushed, with slipshod quality and security only as an afterthough -- and that only by the PR department.

"Where do you want to go today?" seems to have found an answer... ...let's stop by your bank and credit card accounts on the way to an organized crime hangout and/or third-world country! Fun!

  -Charles