Slide.com Hosting Malware
March 31, 2008 – 6:00 pmWebsense Security Labs has been tracking the use of Slide.com as a hosting site for malware for several months. The popular Web 2.0 social networking Web site, ranked 252 by Alexa (Alexa Ranking), is both the largest Facebook application developer and a free and easy place to host malware.
Having tracked the various ways malware is hosted on the site, it appears most popular with attackers targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences. We have seen targeted attacks with fake YouTube email lures in Portuguese that link to malware hosted on Slide.com.
![[Slashdot]](http://www.pcsympathy.com/wp-content/themes/css/images/slash.ico){kind=small}
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![[del.icio.us]](http://www.pcsympathy.com/wp-content/themes/css/images/deli.ico){kind=small}
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Tags: facebook, malware, spyware, vulnerability
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