Well we talked about RSS hacking the other day and now we see a slight twist on this using the Storm worm. The original storm worm ran rampant in January infecting home user computers for the most part.
The new Storm Worm variant attacks the machines of unsuspecting users when they open an email attachment, click on a malicious email link or visit a malicious site, said Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research scientist at Secure Computing.
But the twist comes when these people later post blogs or bulletin board notices. The software will insert into each of their postings a link to a malicious website, said Alperovitch, who rates the threat as “high”.
So, this worm is taking the RSS attack to a new place. Users will unwittingly be contributing to the spread of the worm.
Be sure to keep your antivirus software up to date.
[tags]Storm Worm, Blog Hacking, Malware, Blogs, Blog Posting, Trojan[/tags]
