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Google Becomes Unwitting Abettor for Santy Worm

Posted by geeknews at 10:27 PM on December 21, 2004

The new Santy worm uses the Google search engine to find vulnerable websites and then defaces the sites’ bulletin boards. The worm, formally named Net-Worm.Perl.Santy, attacks website bulletin boards (Internet forums or message centers) running versions of the popular phpBB bulletin board application. The worm exploits a known security vulnerability in early releases of the phpBB application, defacing the contents of the bulletin board.

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Tags: google, hole, html, net-worm.perl.sant, perl, php, phpbb, santy, Security, webistes, Worm

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