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Re: myspace hack
From: Stephen de Vries <stephen () corsaire com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:36:04 +0700
The attacker's own account of the attack can be found here: http:// namb.la/popular/ Together with a more technical explanation here: http://namb.la/ popular/tech
Stephen On 14 Oct 2005, at 22:07, Andrew Chong wrote:
My analysis are:1. Sammy broadcast emails to ask myspace user to add him as his friend.Most likely is a HTML email with the below embeded code in it. The receiver will not need to click to open Sammy profile and the viral script will automatically add Sammy as his hero. If it is a plain text email, the receiver will have to click on a URL link to view Sammy's profile. Assumption 1: The email either contains a hidden size 1x1 embeded iframe code that will execute myspace.com add friend query strings. <iframesrc="http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=mail.addfriend&xxxxxxx&xxxx&xxx" width="1" height="1"> Assumption 2: The email either contains a hidden size 1x1 image using the javascript onload to execute the action. <img src="images/evil.gif" width="1" id="evil" height="1"onload="document.getElementById('evil').src='http://www.myspace.com/ index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.addfriend"> Regards, Andrew Chong, CISSP http://www.sweetfantasy.biz/forum/ -----Original Message----- From: Reynolds, Jake [mailto:Jake.Reynolds () fishnetsecurity com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:30 PM To: Chris Varenhorst; Akash Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: RE: myspace hack I wouldn't consider this an XSS attack. Where in the attack didinformation cross sites? This seems like it is an embedded XSS attack in that a malicious script was entered into a profile in hopes that victimswould view and execute it. However, nothing was sent across sites via the script. The vulnerability was a lack of output validation in my opinion, which is the same vulnerability that an XSS attack would exploit. I don't know how you would classify the attack... Probably "self-replicating session riding". Yeah that has a nice FUD-factor to it. Jake Reynolds, CCIE, CCSP, MCSE, CCSA, JNCIA-FWV, CWNA Senior Security Engineer -- Consulting Services FishNet Security Phone: 816.421.6611 Toll Free: 888.732.9406 Fax: 816.421.6677 http://www.fishnetsecurity.com -----Original Message----- From: Chris Varenhorst [mailto:varenc () MIT EDU] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:39 AM To: Akash Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: Re: myspace hackOh wow I'm wrong, I'm apparently thinking of current myspace bots whichdo as I described. It looks this was in fact made possible by an XSS vulnerability. Sorry On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Chris Varenhorst wrote:This isn't hacking at all. (at least not what I'd call it) This is writing a script to go through myspace IDs (which happen to be squential) issuing friend requests to every one of them. To prevent this, now myspace limits friend requests to a certain number per day. Hope that covers it! -Chris On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Akash wrote:Does anyone has more technical details about how 1 million accountsgot hacked in about 24 hours. This is the supposed confession of the hacker http://fast.info/myspace/ I currently studying for CEH and just finished reading about XSS. So this is of special interest. regards akash
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- myspace hack Akash (Oct 13)
- Re: myspace hack Stephen de Vries (Oct 13)
- Re: myspace hack Chris Varenhorst (Oct 13)
- Re: myspace hack Chris Varenhorst (Oct 13)
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- RE: myspace hack Griffiths, Ian (Oct 13)
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- RE: myspace hack Reynolds, Jake (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Stephen de Vries (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Radoslav Vasilev (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Andrew Chong (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Stephen de Vries (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Tim Brown (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack bugtraq (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Tom Gallagher (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Disco Jonny (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Jeff Robertson (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Richard M. Smith (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Reynolds, Jake (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Jeff Robertson (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack bugtraq (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack (readable javascript code ) A. Fontes (Oct 14)