Malware Spreading Adult Sites Promoted on Mozilla Dev Planning Discussion Group
The Mozilla Dev Planning site is the online place where we get the latest scoops on Mozilla developed software products, like for example the fact that the second Beta version of Thunderbird 3 was made available for download (details here). One poster apparently decided that the best way to celebrate the last weekend of February and the beginning of spring would be by posting links to adult sites (that would be porn).
The poster, which did not create a profile on the Mozilla Dev Planning site, identified himself only by an email address: actiscili@gmail.com. According to Stop Forum Spam, this email address corresponds to a user called FoessyCot, and the originating IP address is 210.7.95.12 – that would indicate the spammer is from India. FoessyCot uploaded a total of three posts, all advertising various forms of amateur adult pics and adult videos. Each post contains a list long list of keywords (for example “amateur america videos”) and a series of links.
It goes without saying that clicking on any of the links provided in the three different posts will not lead you to any web page hosting adult content. If the start of the spring has got you all hot and bothered, you will have to address your amateur pics and videos needs some other way, because the links provided by FoessyCot lead to malware infested sites.
It is not exactly news that spammers and malware spreaders will try to benefit from all and any situation that would help them get you infected with malicious software. What I find troublesome is why the posts have not been taken down by now: they were posted on the 27th of February and it is now already the 2nd of March. I will admit that people visiting the Mozilla Dev Planning site are not exactly “technically challenged” so to speak, but the porn posts leading to malware hosting sites are an eyesore on an otherwise very informative discussion group.
Tags: Mozilla, Firefox, Dev Planning
The poster, which did not create a profile on the Mozilla Dev Planning site, identified himself only by an email address: actiscili@gmail.com. According to Stop Forum Spam, this email address corresponds to a user called FoessyCot, and the originating IP address is 210.7.95.12 – that would indicate the spammer is from India. FoessyCot uploaded a total of three posts, all advertising various forms of amateur adult pics and adult videos. Each post contains a list long list of keywords (for example “amateur america videos”) and a series of links.
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It goes without saying that clicking on any of the links provided in the three different posts will not lead you to any web page hosting adult content. If the start of the spring has got you all hot and bothered, you will have to address your amateur pics and videos needs some other way, because the links provided by FoessyCot lead to malware infested sites.
It is not exactly news that spammers and malware spreaders will try to benefit from all and any situation that would help them get you infected with malicious software. What I find troublesome is why the posts have not been taken down by now: they were posted on the 27th of February and it is now already the 2nd of March. I will admit that people visiting the Mozilla Dev Planning site are not exactly “technically challenged” so to speak, but the porn posts leading to malware hosting sites are an eyesore on an otherwise very informative discussion group.
Tags: Mozilla, Firefox, Dev Planning
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