Researcher Uncloaks 'Zero-Day' Worm That Can Spread Over All Your Social Networks

http://socialnetworkingnews.org/researcher-uncloaks-zero-day-worm-that-can-spread-over-all-your-social-networks/

Imagine it’s possible to force a victim’s browser to effectively create malware “on-the-fly” that would hand over control of the PC, phone or tablet to a hacker. Now imagine this could be done by having the target click on a link for a domain as popular and trusted as Google GOOGL -2.67%.com, and then executing an ostensibly legitimate file. This is, according to Trustwave SpiderLabs security researcher Oren Hafif, a real possibility.

At the Black Hat Europe conference taking place next week he’ll detail his “new” attack technique called Reflected File Download (RFD). More savvy users will be wise enough not to actually click on the downloaded file, even if it does appear to have been delivered by a legitimate domain.

Source: www.forbes.com

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