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The MySpace pages for singer and other musicians were hacked with a seemingly new type of hack, a security expert said Thursday. Keys' MySpace page and that of others, including a Scottish band and a French band, were flagged by users of Exploit Prevention Labs' LinkScanner software, which blocks pages containing malicious code. The discovery came after users began reporting that Keys' page was blocked, according to Roger Thompson, chief technology officer of LinkScanner.com. 'When we saw it was MySpace and Alicia Keys, we took a good look at it,' he said in an interview. [ Also on ITworld:. ] When a visitor views the page, an exploit first attempts to install malware on the visitor's computer if it is not properly patched. Thompson said he was not sure yet which flaw the malware was looking to exploit.
If that is not successful, the user is then asked to install a fake codec to view a video. Thompson explains the process in this. If both of those should fail, the user is also vulnerable if he or she clicks anywhere on the page that is not a legitimate link -- including the ads. 'If your mouse slips a bit from what you meant to click, you get the background [link],' which references a site based in China, co8vd.cn, and also attempts to install malicious code.
Thompson said he had not seen that kind of before. The domain is registered to Xiamen Hua Shang Sheng Shi Network Co. Ltd., in the coastal city of Xiamen in Fujian province, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre's. The company could not immediately be contacted for comment. Because the attack affected several different pages, including one of a high-profile figure like Keys, Thompson believes this is a hack of MySpace, and not a case of attackers simply uncovering the user names and passwords for those pages. MySpace said it had already taken care of the problem. 'Individuals who try to phish our members are violating the law and are not welcome on MySpace.
We have blocked and removed the source of this phishing attempt and restored the profile,' a MySpace spokesperson said by e-mail. Thompson confirmed that the Keys page was now clean, but added, 'We'll see what happens over the next few days.' The hackers success with Keys' page, which Thompson described as 'lucky,' couldn't come at a better time for them -- or a worse time for the musician. Keys, a Grammy Award-winning singer with several platinum albums, will put out her latest release, 'As I Am,' on Nov.
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Multiple MySpace pages, including the official page of popular R&B singer Alicia Keys, have been hacked and are spewing both socially engineered attacks and behind-the-scenes drive-by exploits, a security researcher said late Thursday. Although it's unclear how the MySpace pages were originally compromised, they're now dangerous places to visit, said Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at Exploit Prevention Labs Inc. Among the attacks being served by Keys' page are Trojans that pose as new video codecs; when installed, they actually change the computer's Domain Name System settings to redirect future searches to unauthorized sites -- sometimes porn pages, other times URLs selling bogus security software. Users wary enough to avoid those attacks may still be nailed, said Thompson, who described how unpatched PCs vulnerable to existing exploits are also infected. 'They're using an exploit to install software in the background,' he said in a of the attack posted on his blog. 'So they get you one way or the other.' In an interview via instant messaging, Thompson spelled out the attackers' unique tactics.
Rather than embed the script that redirects the user to the exploit site in an almost-invisible single-pixel IFRAME, this attack uses a huge 8,000-by-1,000-pixel background 'href=' tag. 'Click anywhere but right on top of a control or link on [Keys'] page, and you end up at the exploit site,' said Thompson. Because Keys' page, like many on MySpace, sports lots of audio and video content, a dialog box requesting that the user install a new ActiveX control or a codec wouldn't be suspicious, Thompson added. 'You're already expecting a video, aren't you?'
The codec angle, said Thompson, may point to the hackers who recently expanded their attacks from Windows-only to include Trojans targeting Mac owners. The attackers controlling Keys' page include code that 'looks to see what the user agent is, and if it's Safari, they serve up a Mac Trojan,' said Thompson. It was only a week ago that several security vendors, Mac-specific Intego first among them, reported the appearance of a codec. The exploit site, which carried a Chinese domain, was offline as of 8:00 p.m. Keys' MySpace page had been cleansed of the attack script about an hour prior. According to Thompson, the Keys' page may have been infected as long as five days ago, when users of Exploit Prevention Labs' LinkScanner Pro exploit blocker began reporting that the software was warning of dangerous content on the MySpace site. Messages left with MySpace seeking comment were not returned.