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10,000-website Strong Malware Maze Created by Criminals

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-sure-you'll-come-out-fine dept.

Stony Stevenson passed us an ITnews article about the newest scam in online crime. Some 10,000 web pages have been rigged by IT-minded criminals, with the aim of hijacking unsuspecting PCs. The site reports that the users are redirected through a maze of malware, all with the goal of gaining access to personal user information. "The reprogrammed web pages are probably victims of an automated attack that included scanning the internet for unsecured servers and planting a piece of JavaScript code that redirects to a site in China to serve up the malware. The malware cocktail attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in Windows, RealPlayer and other applications to break into the PC. A back door also allows the subsequent installation of additional malicious programs. McAfee Avert Labs first spotted the attack on 12 March. 'Of the 10,000 pages that were compromised a number have already been cleaned up,' the firm stated."

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  1. Oblig. by Damocles+the+Elder · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's over 9000!

    1. Re:Oblig. by fireman+sam · · Score: 3, Funny

      Every time someone posts to complain about a mod decision instead of leaving it to the meta-mods, God kills a kitten.

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    2. Re:Oblig. by cheater512 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh nice work there. He just killed another one. :P

    3. Re:Oblig. by lantastik · · Score: 2, Funny

      IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND! is a meme started from the annie may Dragon Ball Z, where characters would use scouters to detect power levels. It was cuntpasted many a time for the win. No topic goes without it. It's worth noting that in the original man gay, Vegeta noted Goku's power level as being "over 8000", "9000" is a product of Funimation Faggotry.

      From: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/9000 Cuntpasted? Is that what the kids are doing now-a-days?
    4. Re:Oblig. by Gideon+Fubar · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wish i could metamoderate this '+1 Funny'. Oh teh irony.

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  2. Another oblig by esocid · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a trap!

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    1. Re:Another oblig by LMacG · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or for us older folk:

      You are in a maze of twisty little web pages, all alike.

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    2. Re:Another oblig by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 2, Funny

      Do we get eaten by a grue?

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    3. Re:Another oblig by LMacG · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only if it's pitch dark.

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  3. We should make vbscript the standard... by syntaxeater · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...then we wouldn't be having these problems.

    1. Re:We should make vbscript the standard... by IBBoard · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, because all of the sane webmasters would have quit or killed themselves and the insane ones would be creating pages that no-one would want to visit!

  4. It is pitch black. by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are likely to be eaten by a script kiddie.

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  5. Obligatory criticism of the use of 'obligatory' by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    From now on, whenever someone posts something they claim is 'obligatory,' we should point out, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Dueling memes, what fun!

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  6. Impressive! by jgarra23 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It reminds me of that Eddie Izzard bit in "Dress To Kill" where he talks about how we as a society abhor serial killers but when we start to get even into the hundreds or thousands or millions we're like, "well done!" that's impressive! In an odd morbid sort of way... I mean, you hear about worms and crap like that or the oddball who hacked A system... but to create a "maze" of over 10k sites?? Well, uh... impressive!

    1. Re:Impressive! by IBBoard · · Score: 4, Funny
      And for anyone who is unfortunate enough not to know Eddie Izzard or who hasn't seen "Dress to Kill", the section is:

      And Hitler ended up in a ditch, covered in petrol, on fire, so, that's fun! I think that's funny, 'cause he was a mass-murdering fuckhead. And that was his honeymoon as well! Double trouble!

      "Eva, let's marry."

      "Where should our honeymoon be?"

      "Well, in a ditch, covered in petrol, on fire. I've already arranged it upstairs."

      "Oh, how romantic, Adolf."

      "Yes, I thought!"

      Fun! What a bastard! And he was a vegetarian, and a painter, so he must have been going, "I can't get the fucking trees... Damn! I will kill everyone in the world!"

      And he was a mass-murdering fuckhead, as many important historians have said. But there were other mass murderers that got away with it! Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, well done there; Pol Pot killed 1.7 million Cambodians, died under house arrest at age 72, well done indeed! And the reason we let them get away with it is because they killed their own people, and we're sort of fine with that. "Ah, help yourself," you know? "We've been trying to kill you for ages!" So kill your own people, right on there. Seems to be... Hitler killed people next door... "Oh... stupid man!" After a couple of years, we won't stand for that, will we?
      Pol Pot killed 1.7 million people. We can't even deal with that! You know, we think if somebody kills someone, that's murder, you go to prison. You kill 10 people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick, that's what they do. 20 people, you go to a hospital, they look through a small window at you forever. And over that, we can't deal with it, you know? Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning. I can't even get down the gym! Your diary must look odd: "Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch- death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower..."

      So I suppose we're glad that Pol Pot's under house arrest... you know, 1.7 million people. At least he - we know where he is - under house arrest! Just don't go in that fucking house, you know? I know a lot of people who'd love to be under house arrest! They bring you your food... "Just stay here? Oh, all right. (singing laconically ) Have you got any videos?" You know, you just sit there all day... And Pol Pot was a history teacher. And Hitler was a vegetarian painter. So... mass-murderers come from the areas you least expect it. I don't know how the flip comes over, but it happens.


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  7. Save us by DiscoLizard · · Score: 5, Funny

    McAfee Avert Labs described the assault as "one of the largest attacks to date of this kind".

    The attack serves as a reminder that even trusted websites can be malicious, McAfee warned.

    "Often you hear warnings about not going to untrusted sites," said Craig Schmugar, threat researcher at McAfee Avert Labs."That is good advice, but it is not enough."

    McAfee Avert Labs first spotted the attack on 12 March.



    I wonder who can sell us some sort of software to guide us out of this maze of evil webpages?

  8. Re:What's vulnerable? by symbolset · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article doesn't make it clear. This is a vulnerability in Windows, or in IE?

    Yes.

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  9. Re:Dueling memes.. by Gideon+Fubar · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're doing it wrong; the internet is for porn.

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  10. Re:Wait, so we know the physical location... by mjwx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't this what Tactical Nuclear Weapons were designed for?
    No. Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough.
    But nuking them from orbit is the only way to be sure.
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  11. Re:The Question Webmasters Have Is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    if you have any of the above mentioned symptoms i'd recommend grabbing a live cd linux disc...and install Linux

    Fixed that for you. ;)