According to safety experts, foreign popular new worms that attacked BBS, the title is Santy, which uses the phpbb program vulnerability, which can identify potential attack targets through Google search.
The latest analysis reflects that worm Santy uses a widely used well-known Forum communication software PHP Bulletin Board (PHPBB) raging communication. Anti-virus Kaspersky said that Santy can search for software versions with vulnerabilities through Google.
Currently, nearly 40000 websites have been infected by Santy. Everyone searches for the "Neverevernosanity" - forwan Santy to replace some malicious texts of the infected website file, you can return to get 39,000 websites.
Tuesday, Kaspersky said at a new conference that worms Santy are spreading in crazy. However, it does not directly affect the user. Although it is able to infect websites, it does not infection to browse these websites.
What is terrible is that the worm Santy first sends a search request to Google to get a website address with a vulnerability. Next, Santy sends a PHP request to use the vulnerability of the website PHPBB software to use this website address list.
This worm uses Google as an attack tool and is the first malicious program that uses Google to identify attack targets. Currently, Google does not comment on this tool. A company spokesperson said Google will definitely understand the details and launch relevant surveys.
