R&B recording artist Alicia Keys’ MySpace page was hacked not once but twice this week, according to Exploit Prevention Labs. The first attack, likely done early in the week, affected visitors viewing virtually any part of Keys’ page, Exploit Prevention’s Chief Technical Officer Roger Thompson reported on Thursday. For visitors running unpatched Windows machines, it would install malware in the background. Then it used the promise of a Keys video with a fake codec to lure victims into manually launching an exploit that would infect patched machines as well.
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Fans Get Malware Instead of Music on Alicia Keys’ MySpace Page
Posted by: Katherine Noyes November 9, 2007 11:14 AMR&B recording artist Alicia Keys’ MySpace page was hacked not once but twice this week, according to Exploit Prevention Labs. The first attack, likely done early in the week, affected visitors viewing virtually any part of Keys’ page, Exploit Prevention’s Chief Technical Officer Roger Thompson reported on Thursday. For visitors running unpatched Windows machines, it would install malware in the background. Then it used the promise of a Keys video with a fake codec to lure victims into manually launching an exploit that would infect patched machines as well.