Friday 27 March 2015

Xtube Porn Spreading Malware Via Flash Attack


Visitors to the porn xtube are now warned cyber criminals have hacked the website and use it for distributing malware. Xtube 780 ranked of most visited websites in the United States and would have to deal with 25 million visitors every month.

Unlike other recent attacks are widely used in the case of infectious xtube no ads, but the attackers have malicious code placed directly on the website itself. Something which is possible only if the attackers have access to the website. The code sends users unnoticed through to another website which then tries to put through a known vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player malware on the computer.

It is a vulnerability that already has a security update has been released. Users who have the latest Flash Player version available are therefore not at risk. In case the attack was successfully placed a Trojan horse on the computer. The malware was detected at the time of the attack by 12 of the 57 scanners on VirusTotal, says anti-virus company Malwarebytes .

It is not just porn sites that are victims of these attacks. This week, the Dutch security researcher warned Yonathan Klijnsma that the website nummeriban.nl where users can convert to an IBAN account number, also malicious code was detected. The malicious code sent by visitors to a website that users via known vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player, Java and Adobe Reader tried to attack.

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