Hakkers Yoosing Bad Spellingz to Fool Facebuk Uzers

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 by Andy Beal

Hakkers Yoosing Bad Spellingz to Fool Facebuk Uzers

Unless you have a lot of friends on Facebook that are illiterate, I’m betting you won’t have too much trouble identifying the latest attempt to infect your computer with the Koobface trojan. Here’s the type of message that typically accompanies the attempt to infect you:

"Sommebody uupload a viideo witth you on utubee. you shuold ese"

Even my dog can spell better than that.

OK, so the hackers are likely deliberately misspelling words so as to avoid spam filters, but still, would you click on the above?

You might, if you saw that the link went to a legitimate site such as Google. But, don’t be fooled.

On Tuesday, researchers at unified threat management vendor Fortinet noticed that a program similar to the Koobface worm had started using the Google Reader and Picasa Web sites to spread. In the attack, criminals host images that look like YouTube videos on the Google sites in hopes of tricking victims into downloading malicious Trojan software.

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9 comments on “Hakkers Yoosing Bad Spellingz to Fool Facebuk Uzers”

Permz Says:

October 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am

leet hax fo realz
GoScript Says:

October 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Are you sure they are deliberately misspelling words?

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iPod Says:

November 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 am

Apleparnty it is olny the frist and lsat ltetres taht atacululy mtater. You can raed a scntenee coetcrlry eevn if the ltetres ibenteewen the frist and lsat lteter are mdulded.

Not sure that’s completely true though! Anyway, why are they deliberately mispelling words like with and should. Surely these words are words which would never be flagged by spam catches in the first place?

John
Utah SEO Pro Says:

November 2nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm

My dog can spell better than that too.

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MB Web Design Says:

November 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm

They could at least type it like a lolcat – ‘I can haz yootoobz viddeo?’

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Abdul Says:

November 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 am

Haha, That was pretty smart of those hackerz to come up with something like that! Hats Off!

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cat Says:

November 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 am

It’s a good idea with bad spelling, for nobody to understand nothing
brandon alan scofield Says:

November 8th, 2008 at 6:16 am

maybe they english sughs or they tyve de wort in huurree
as a ameteur haceker …
any way it is good idea i never think of before …
as a ameteur hacker …

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Imran Says:

December 14th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

iPod u are right except for the minority that is labeled dyslexic…if you misspell they have trouble understanding since their perceptions are of phonetics and not the words themselves or at least something like that

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