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The Flashback malware that infected 600,000 Macs in March made money throughclickjacking, and a different piece of malware discovered last weekthat places ads on Wikipedia pages seems to operate the same way. Working hard for your money The SpyEye phishing email, forwarded to Sophos' Naked Security blog by a reader, pretends to be an official notification from Facebooktelling the recipient that "we have received an accountcancellation request from you." The email then asks therecipient to "follow the link below to confirm or cancel thisrequest." The link does go to a Facebook.com page, but not an official one.Instead, the visitor is asked to install an unknown Java-basedapplication, and not given an option to decline. Once the applet is installed, the user is then asked to"update" the Adobe Flash Player — which, in thiscase, is really a variant of the SpyEye banking Trojan . Good anti-virus software will block the installation of SpyEye, aswill common sense that tells users not to allow installation ofunwanted applications. Today clickjacking, tomorrow who knows? LilyJade uses similar social-engineering tactics, claiming to benews about Justin Bieber being in a car crash.
Once a user clicksthe link, it uses a drive-by download to infect browsers. At the moment, LilyJade is harmless to infected computers. But it'sinstalled using a cybercriminal exploit kit and is written in a newprogramming framework called Crossrider that works equally well inGoogle Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. LilyJade's rapid spread and ease of infection won't go unnoticedfor long by other malware creators. "It is quite rare to analyze a malicious file written in theform of a cross-platform browser plugin.
It is, however, even rarerto come across plugins created using cross-browser engines,"wrote Kaspersky Lab security expert Sergey Golovanov in an English-language blog post today (May 21.) (TheRussian-language version was posted May 5.) What's unusual about LilyJade, according to independent security researcher Brian Krebs , is that its creator, an Arizona hacker named Dru Mundorff, isopenly selling it for $1,000 a copy on hacking forums, using hisreal name. On the hacking forum, Mundorff claimed that LilyJade is invisibleto anti-virus software , since in some cases it's just two lines of code pointing to anexternal site. Facebook told Krebs it had already sent Mundorff a cease-and-desistletter, which Mundorff ignored. Mundorff told Krebs that LilyJade is in fact perfectly legal,thanks to a creative end-user license agreement. "We're not forcing any users to be bypassed, exploited oranything like that," Mundorff told Krebs.
"At that point,if they do agree, it will allow us to make posts on their wallthrough our system." This story was provided by SecurityNewsDaily , a sister site to TechNewsDaily. I am a professional writer from Bag Making Machinery, which contains a great deal of information about lace ankle socks , buffalo bills apparel, welcome to visit!
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