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Artificial stripper seduces humans into spreading spam online
Spammers have created a Windows game showing a woman called "melissa" stripping in an effort to beat anti-spam security checks and spread viruses. By getting people to type in the text the spammers can take over net-based resources, such as blogging tools and e-mail accounts.The game is an attempt to circumvent security on sites which use scrambled text to stop computers automatically signing up for accounts that can be put to illegal use.
Typically these security features a disfigured word or one overlaid with objects that make it difficult for anyone but a human to decipher and are known as Captchas or "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
Raimund Genes, chief technology officer at Trend Micro said the Captchas seen with the first versions of the malicious program are all taken from the sign-up system for Yahoo webmail.
He also remarked that this was the first virus that actually shows people the explicit images promised if they respond, and it could catch on, but they "have a number of mechanisms to help us detect and respond to abuse".
The virtual stripper program arrives on machines that are already infected with malicious software, said Mr Genes, and activates when the Internet Explorer browser is launched on infected machines.
Mr Genes recommended that people run anti-virus, anti-spyware and web watching programs to avoid infection and to install updates as soon as they become available.
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Published Date: 2008-01-03 09:33:51Subscribe to our RSS News feed:
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