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Wiki worm warning

by Iain Thomson

05 Nov 2006

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I guess it had to happen sooner or later. Hackers have been using Wikipedia to distribute links to malware. In one case a Wikipedia entry was created containing false information about a new version of the Blaster worm, along with a link to a fix. Except the link went straight to something nasty.

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