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When a user viewed that profile, they would have the payload planted on their page. Within just 20 hours [11] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload, [12] making it the fastest spreading virus of all time. [4] The MySpace team temporarily shut down MySpace to fix the problem that allowed the worm to operate.
Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar.Within just 20 hours [1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time.
He hijacked somewhere in the area of half a million computer systems. This not only affected computers like the one in your home, but it allowed him and others to orchestrate large-scale attacks. — US attorney's office in Los Angeles, Thom Mrozek [ 2 ]
E-mail addresses that will be targeted by the virus are gathered from files on the host computer. The file extensions that will be searched for e-mail addresses are: .dbx.eml.hlp.htm.html.mht.wab.txt; The Sobig.F variant was programmed to contact 20 IP addresses on UDP port 8998 on August 26, 2003 to install some program or update itself.
Overview of normal communications between Step 7 and a Siemens PLC Overview of Stuxnet hijacking communication between Step 7 software and a Siemens PLC According to researcher Ralph Langner, [ 72 ] [ 73 ] once installed on a Windows system, Stuxnet infects project files belonging to Siemens' WinCC / PCS 7 SCADA control software [ 74 ] (Step 7 ...
[2] Most hijacking programs constantly change the settings of browsers, meaning that user choices in their own browser are overwritten. Some antivirus software identifies browser hijacking software as malicious software and can remove it. Some spyware scanning programs have a browser restore function to set the user's browser settings back to ...
The virus was released on his 18th birthday (29 April 2004). Sven Jaschan was found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data. On Friday 8 July 2005 he received a 21-month suspended sentence. He later received three years probation and had to complete 30 hours of community service in a retirement home. [2]
The flaw was discovered when two system programmers were editing at the same time and the temporary files for the message of the day and the password file became swapped, causing the contents of the system CTSS password file to display to any user logging into the system. [8] [9] [10] [11]