Wikipedia hijacked
p2pnet.net News:- Wikipedia staff have confirmed that hackers hijacked the site to plant malware on users’ computers.
“The attackers created a Wikipedia page that promised a Windows security update for a supposedly new version of the Lovesan/W32.Blaster worm, and pointed to an external site with the seemingly authentic domain wikipedia-download.org,” says Techworld.
Wikipedia editors quickly identified and deleted the article, states the story, quoting Germany’s Heise news site.
But, it continues, “the attackers had used a Wikipedia feature that archives all previous versions of articles when changes have been made. The malicious page thus continued to exist in the archive, and the attackers were able to point to it in mass emails, according to Heise.”
However, Wikipedia says it’s now permanently erased the archived version of the page.
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UPDATE: 3:41 pm Pacific
Wikimedia has asked us to point out that although volunteers may have commented on this story, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, no staff member has done so.
Also See:
Techworld – Wikipedia hijacked by malware, November 3, 2006
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November 5th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Talking of unwanted rubbish…
November 5th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Wikipedia “hijacked”? What a load of FUD. Holy shit, someone made a website that impersonated us! ALERT THE INTERNET!
November 5th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
they created a page full of SPAM and hijacked p2pnet.net with this page.
This was a FUD message brought to you by Sony BMG’s Bertelsmann encyclopedia devision. Thanks for your attention!
November 7th, 2006 at 12:23 am
May the bots of a thousand hackers infest your ‘puter.
Didn’t even RTFA, did ya.