The title of this post may not make sense, but I thought it would be amusing. This post is going to be based on the “dirty” links contained in random MSN Messages / emails…It recently came to my attention that one of my close friends also had a breach on their Hotmail account. Very upsetting to be quite honest especially considering we would class ourselves as tech savvy.
Continuing in the usual fashion, the breach is then sending out mass emails to the entire Contact List with what seems to be a randomly generated link. This then forwards you to a site that hosts a rather nasty collection of Malware and exploits designed to download themselves to your system in a very short space of time.
One of the latest ones that I have received linked to a porn related site. (Everything seems to stem from there in some shape or form doesn’t it!). It’s “Malicious software includes 10 trojan(s), 9 exploit(s).” according to a Google Safe Browsing diagnostic. It doesn’t actually list the exact items of Malware but still, that’s obviously a pretty nasty collection right there. With the exploits opening up the path for the software to be downloaded and installed right under the users nose.
It also states that it has infected 58 domains within the last 90 days, which is a very large number of domains to be contributing to this issue. Most of the domains that have been infected seem to be in the “.pl” and “.ru” range.
I guess this is more of a common sense thing again. You need to be sure of every link you are clicking on. Even if it is sent to you by a friend. Also, a link may not be as it first appears.
A link can easily be disguised. For example I could type “microsoft.com” and the underlaying link could take you to something along the lines of “mirosoft.com”. Making it very close for those of you who are looking at it quickly.
You can check where a link is going by simply hovering over it. You will then be shown a box either at the bottom of your browser or very close to the link itself displaying the true destination of the link you are about to click on. (Click on the image for a larger view)
I am using this image as a safe example of what I was just going over. You can’t see it in a screenshot, but my mouse pointer was hovering over the word “Mail” at the top of the picture. At the bottom of the browser appeared the true link to where the word “Mail” was actually taking me. As you can clearly see, this could be very easily used in a destructive way rather than simply making access to email easier taking you to a site that will attempt to do whatever it so desires.
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