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Hackers take advantage of Wikipedia to spread Blaster

Wikipedia has just been kidnapped by hackers and turned it into a tool to spread a famous malware - the Blaster worm.

In particular, hackers hacked and partially edited the German version of the Wikipedia page and posted fake information about a new version of the famous computer worm Blaster.

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Signs of blaster infection.

The content of articles edited on German Wikipedia also contains a link to download the Blaster worm removal tool (fix version). But if users click on that link they will download the Blaster worm itself, not the fix.

Signs of blaster infection.

Hackers also spread links to Blaster's "malicious" article on the German Wikipedia page. However, security firm Sophos said that up to now, the number of people infected with the new version of Blaster worm has not been much since most systems have been installed with necessary patches.

But this is also a testament to the fact that Wikipedia is too open, less censored, so anyone can create or edit content at their own discretion. Therefore, the author of all kinds of malware can easily take advantage of to spread anything they want.

The Blaster worm is a quite dangerous worm that infects Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. This worm infection symptom is the fact that your PC regularly launches warnings Windows will have to start up in about seconds. This worm prevents any network activity and stops all systems.

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