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quietman7
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 Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: Mystery web attack hijacks your clipboard |
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A new web-based attack is making the rounds that tries to spread poisonous links by hijacking end users' clipboards.
Forum discussions here, here, here, here and elsewhere all report the same thing: the commenter surfs to a seemingly legitimate site (MSNBC.com comes up more than once) and suddenly a malicious link is copied to the clipboard. The rogue link remains even after the user copies a new batch of text. The only way to remove it is to reboot the computer.
The attack has been reported by Firefox users running both OS X and Windows, but we wouldn't be surprised to hear that other browsers and operating systems are also vulnerable. It's unclear exactly how the attack spreads.... |
theregister.co.uk
Clipboards hijacked in web attack
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