{"id":309486,"date":"2010-02-11T22:38:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f85\/malicious-web-site-malicious-code-spammers-already-using-google-buzz-39340\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:38:42","slug":"malicious-web-site-malicious-code-spammers-already-using-google-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309486","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Web Site \/ Malicious Code: Spammers already using Google Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.10.10 04:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>With all the <a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-in-gmail.html\" >buzz<\/a> this week about Google Buzz, we were just waiting for malicious activity to show up on the newly launched service. We didn&#8217;t quite expect it to happen this fast. Today we saw the first spam using Google Buzz to spread a message about smoking: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47434642@N02\/4349170543\/\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4061\/4349170543_f972fa3cc3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The spammer is already following 237 people, and we can only imagine that he or she has sent similar messages to all of them. This particular message leads to a site hosted on a free Web hosting service talking about how to quit smoking. <\/p>\n<p>When Twitter was launched, it took a while before it was used to send spam and other malicious messages. In this case, it only took two days. It&#8217;s clear that the bad guys have learned from their experience using social networks to distribute these type of messages. <\/p>\n<p>We hope that Google is geared up for dealing with the volume of spam it&#8217;s bound to see on the new service. Until then, we advise users to be careful, as usual, when clicking on unknown links. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Alerts\/3551.aspx\" >http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/con&#8230;erts\/3551.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.10.10 04:00 PM With all the buzz this week about Google Buzz, we were just waiting for malicious activity to show up on the newly launched service. We didn&#8217;t quite expect it to happen this fast. Today we saw the first spam using Google Buzz to spread a message about smoking: The spammer is already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}