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Re: Almost 30,000 Videos On YouTube Contain Comments w. Links To Malicious Web Page
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2009, 05:17:42 AM »
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Fake Videos Lead to Fake Flash Player
by Jonathan Leopando (Technical Communications)


Cybercriminals have long used videos as a lure to get unknowing users to download and install malware onto their systems. Recently, however, a new variant came up that differs just a little from the usual modus operandi.

TROJ_SMALL.UY, at first glance, appears to be a fairly standard malware that’s installed by claiming it’s needed for a video. There’s one difference, though: TROJ_SMALL.UY, which poses as an installer for Adobe Flash Player, does appear to actually install Adobe Flash Player.

In fact, TROJ_SMALL.UY goes to a fair amount of trouble to look like a legitimate program. Consider, first of all, the page where it can be downloaded from:

Details & screenshots at TrendLabs - http://blog.trendmicro.com/

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Almost 30,000 Videos On YouTube Contain Comments w. Links To Malicious Web Page
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2009, 05:16:36 AM »
Almost 30,000 Videos On YouTube Contain Comments With Links To A Malicious Web Page
Automation tools are being used based on large number of videos affected, according to PandaLabs

May 22, 2009 | 09:14 AM

GLENDALE, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, has approximately 30,000 videos on YouTube with comments containing links that point to a Web page designed to download malware. This is another example of how cyber-criminals are attacking popular Web 2.0 sites to distribute malware. Similar attacks have previously been seen, to a lesser extent, on sites including Digg.com and Facebook.

The comments are normally suggestive, claiming that the link will take users to a legal Web page with pornographic content. You can see an image here: youtube_comments "

darkreading for details - http://tinyurl.com/qvtqeq
 

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