New worm crawling through blogs ?! [View All]

[tocqueville]

January 26, 2006 2:06 PM PST

I spotted it on Christopher Boyd's Vital Security blog. Chris is a Microsoft security MVP and security research manager at FaceTime, an instant messaging security company. However, this worm appears to have spread much further and has slithered around the world.

The worm is actually an animated GIF image. Bloggers all over have embedded it in their blogs and link to the creator's Web site. If you want to see the blog worm, go to Chris' blog or go directly to the source.

To infect your blog, you have to copy and paste a piece of HTML code into your blog.

I think this is kind of funny. On the flipside, however, there could be some security implications if the hoster of this "worm" decided to upload a malicious image that took control of the PC's that visit sites that show it.

http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6031795.html?part=rss&tag=6031795&subj=news

to see the worm (completely harmless) :

http://www.moox.nl/blogworm/