Unknown hackers have created another worm for the popular social network in Brazil, Orkut, - informs The Register.
The worm spreads by using Scrapkut friends list in Orkut network through the injection of active code. Malicious code that supposedly contains a link to one of the videos appear in the victim's diary.
After clicking on the link, the user request is redirected to an external site with malicious software disguised as updated Flash-player. When a user is tricked installs software in its current web session with Orkut introduced hacking Javascript-code. Then, this code contains the diary entry will be circulated to all the friends of the victim, and a new cycle of infection.
Symantec has already published a report analyzing the potential danger worm. Judging from the counter on the page with malicious software, more than 13,000 users are infected by the worm Scrapkut, but it only applies to happiness, without causing any harm.
Recall that the previous Orkut- virus has infected more than half a million computers. Numerous users of the service received an email stating that the system Orkut Scrapbook published a new record. When the user clicks a link computers were infected, after which they immediately added to the ekaunty community Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut ( in Portuguese ... At that time, Google has corrected the error within a few hours after its discovery, stopping the further spread of the worm.
Orkut Social Network was established in 2004 and from October 2006 to check it is done without Invite. Initially it was thought that the target audience - the North American market (USA, Canada ), but became the most popular Orkut in Brazil.
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