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Get hacked on the fly (video)
If you aren't paranoid about your security online you, you'd better watch this video. If you are, it will only further confirm your fears.
Shot at the McAfee Avert Labs Day, it shows a so-called fly-by malware infection: a system gets hacked by merely visiting a specially crafted website. The attacker then installs malware and a rootkit that attempts to hide the attack from the system and security software.
The user never gets to see any warnings or prompts. If it wouldn't be for new registry entries and processes showing up in the task manager, there wouldn't have been any indication that this was going on.
This particular case was recorded late last year. It exploited a Javascript flaw in Windows XP and Internet Explorer that has since been repaired.
And don't say that this can't happen with Firefox. There are known cases of fly-by malware infections using flaws in the open source browser too, McAfee said.
Tags: mcafee, fly-by hacking, hacking, security, windows, malware
July 21, 2006 at 04:18 PM | Permalink
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It would be interesting to watch that from a Linux machine.
However, Adobe has not released a player for Flash which supports anything later than version 7.
Please keep that in mind when posting Flash content.
Posted-by: Mark A. Flacy | 22 Jul 2006 00:30:14
It be nice to see the logs from this.
I've watched browser exploits before, and they are right - it can be damned hard to figure out what's going on, or what exploit it uses.
Posting the logs from this that they saw (and we saw, blurrily) in the video would be very informative and useful. Text logs, please.
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Posted-by: Andy | 24 Jul 2006 04:45:32
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