NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home / News / Microsoft

Microsoft


Free Porn Via Windows Vista Vulnerability

Jenna Jameson, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

12th of April 2007, 16:21 GMT

Adjust text size:



Enlarge picture
There is a surge of free pornography targeting a critical vulnerability in Windows Vista. Pornographic content involving hard core porno actress Jenna Jameson and the sexually exuberant pop princesses
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is served directly to Windows Vista users. Britney Spears naked, Britney Spears naked pussy & Paris Hilton, Nude Jenna Jameson and hot pictures of Paris Hilton nude are the hooks designed to advertise the pleasures hidden behind a click of the mouse. And if it sounds too good to be true it's because it is.

In fact, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Jenna Jameson are used as incentives in a social engineering scheme designed to convince users to visit malicious websites built to exploit the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Spam Jenna Jameson
Enlarge picture
Security company Sophos has warned that a Windows attacks are just one click away from artistic and intimate, preferable sexually explicit images of the pop queens and Jenna. The expansive sexuality of the three women is being exploited to, in turn, exploit the .ANI file format handling vulnerability in Windows.

"The problem is that consumers and businesses may not yet have patched themselves against this vulnerability, and clicking on unsolicited emails like these could lead them to a nasty malware infection," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "Microsoft issued a patch for the problem last week, but determined hackers look set on taking advantage of the security flaw for some time to come."

There are two different spam campaigns: one debuted on March 30 and one on April 11, 2007. The attacks aiming to exploit the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability are designed to spread the Troj/Iffy-B, Troj/Iffy-A and Troj/Animoo-LTrojan horses.

Spam Britney Spears
Enlarge picture
"This latest attack is believed to be by the same group of hackers that last week spammed out scantily clad pictures of Britney Spears to exploit the Microsoft vulnerability. It follows news that Paris Hilton and Jenna Jameson were seen celebrating the latter's birthday party together at a trendy LA club last weekend. This is not the first time that Paris Hilton has been used as bait in an attempt to trick innocent computer users into viral infection. The promise of glimpses of pin-ups like Britney Spears, Halle Berry, Avril Lavigne, Anna Kournikova, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lopez, or the stars of 'Sex and the City' have previously been used to help viruses spread," Sophos revealed.

TAGS:

Windows Vista | spam
Read by 22,269 user(s) | Add comment | Link to this article TWEET THIS


Article rating:
Fair (2.7/5) 11 vote(s)    

Subscribe to news | Print article | Send to friend

© Copyright 2001-2009 Softpedia
Contact:

 

 

SEARCH THE NEWS ARCHIVE :




Today's News
| Yesterday's News | News Archive


MORE RELATED ARTICLES:


Windows Vista Is Top Dog

Watch Windows Vista Vulnerabilities Grow

Attackers Can Potentially Run Malicious Applications on Windows Vista

Firefox 2.0 and IE7 - Attack Vectors for Windows Vista

Windows Vista, 90-Day Vulnerability Report

Vista, Linux, Mac OS X - Apples, Apples, Apples?

A Windows Vista Zero-Day Is Pure Gold

Windows Vista Is Hard As a Rock

Windows Vista - to Do or Not to Do, Security?

Mozilla Needs to Start Copying Internet Explorer 7

User opinions:

No user comments yet.
Be the first to express your opinion using the form below!

Share your opinion:

Your Name:
Your Email Address:
(will not be used for commercial purposes)
Solve this to prove you're not a bot: =
Your review/opinion:

 




Windows tabGames tabDrivers tabMac tabLinux tabScripts tabMobile tabHandheld tabGadgets tabNews tab

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   ENTER NEWS SITE   |   ENGLISH BOARD   |   ROMANIAN FORUM