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« on: March 04, 2009, 03:27:11 »
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FYI...

- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001619.html
March 4, 2009 - "Online criminals regularly post their ads on YouTube, looking for buyers for their products. Some recent examples... (Screenshots at the URL above.) No big surprises there. A bit more surprisingly, when you want to report such videos to YouTube admins, they actually don't have an option for reporting criminal use..."

- http://www.internetnews.com/security/print.php/3808326
March 3, 2009 - "... In both the Digg and YouTube attacks, links claim to take visitors to a video. Instead, they -redirect- them to one of several sites that then download malware like the Adware/Videoplay worm. The worm steals cookies, passwords, user profiles and e-mail account information and sends these to a remote site over the Internet. It can also make copies of itself in removable media to spread further. The links can also direct users to download fake antivirus software..."
- http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/Metatags-in-malware-websites.aspx

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