WordPress Trending Theme 0.1 - Cross-Site Scripting

WordPress Trending theme's "cpage" parameter is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It fails to properly clean up user-supplied input. An attacker may execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an user in the context of the affected site. In this way the attacker can steal...

URGE (Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter) Hijacking Twitter Trends Released by Anonymous

URGE Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter Hijacking Twitter Trends Released by Anonymous Anonymous have created something called Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter, or more simply URGE, which hijacks Twitter trending topics, allowing Anonymous members and supporters to subvert the topic with their own embedd...

Elizabeth Taylor's Death Triggers Spam Campaign

Yesterday we learned that Elizabeth Taylor, an American icon for some seven decades, died of congestive heart failure at 79. Today, Kaspersky Lab expert Dmitry Bestuzhev informs us that the news of her death is being exploited via social engineering scams on Twitter. The scam uses a shortened,...

Moscow Bombings, TJX Hacker Spur Black Hat Campaigns

Spammers and malware writers have wasted no time in taking advantage of Monday’s bombings in Moscow, opening up a campaign on Twitter to point users to malicious sites. The pair of suicide bombings that hit the Metro system in Moscow Monday morning inevitably led to a flood of messages on Twitter...

Search Engine Poisoning Is On the Rise

To improve the chances of installing their malware on random computers, scareware peddlers have decided to set up more that 60 websites that contain hundreds of possible search matches for hot, trending topics. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Tips for Avoiding Malware on Social Networks Include More than Common Sense

Amid all the malware on Facebook, Twitter, Bit.ly and other social networks and microblogs, there are some new tips and strategies on how to avoid being hijacked. The article describes a number of methods including the hijacking of Twitter trending topics and hijacking legitimate Twitter accounts...

Scareware Scammers Hijack Twitter Trending Topics

Security researchers are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random...

Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware

From ZDNet Dancho Danchev A currently ongoing malware attack across Twitter is abusing the momentum offered by Twitter’s trending topics in order to trick users into visiting bogus exclusive video sites and infect them with malware. The campaign, spreading since last week, is relying on a growing...

Security alert: Twitter porn names scam

From PC World Aurora Dizon The “Twitter porn names” game, currently Twitter’s top trending topic, may be a fun distraction that gives you and your friends something to tweet about. But it also has a security hole–one that is no technical snafu. It could be simple human error, but it’s also possib...