Posts Tagged ‘spam’

19-Year-Old Says He Hacked Celebrity E-Mail, MySpace Accounts A teenager who claims he hacked the e-mail and MySpace accounts of Miley Cyrus earned more than $100,000 by accessing other celebrity accounts and using them to send spam, according to an FBI affidavit. Josh Holly, 19, told the FBI that he hacked numerous celebrity MySpace and e-mail accounts, according to a search warrant affidavit, which was first reported by WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville, Tenn. The FBI searched Holly's apartment in October 2008 and seized several computers and an iPhone as part of an investigation into the hacking of Cyrus' e-mail account. Full story

Hackers infiltrated popular tech business site eWeek.com yesterday using Google's DoubleClick banner ads as a vehicle. Websense caught the malicious coding and published its results, which spurred eWeek to scour its code and remove all phony advertisements. The pest, named Anti-Virus-1, is complicated and smart. The advertisements are for antivirus software, and when a user clicked on them, the ads redirect to a pornography Website through a series of iframes. Then a PDF pops up loaded with evil code, exploiting a weakness currently festering in the Adobe systems; or the file index.php redirects to the rogue ad server. The server places a file named "winratit.exe" into the user's temporary files folder and stays there without any user interaction. Full story