Beware, "Liza Moon" virus can Drain Your Credit Cards

A computer virus is currently spreading massively infect hundreds of thousands of web site addresses worldwide. Be careful with the spread of a virus called "Liza Moon"is because it can drain your credit card.

Liza Moon does not directly endanger the victim's computer. Trick the victim with the virus seems to provide assistance antivirus. It will show any threat information that is on victim's computer and offered to help overcome them. However, when clicked, the victim must pay first with a credit card.

"Fraud using a very traditional antivirus scam," said Patrick Runald, digital security researchers from Websense as reported by eWEEK. He said, on March 31, 2011, the virus that is spread by SQL injection technique that has infected more than 500,000 web site addresses. This is the most rapid spread of scam on the web in a few years since the attacks of the same in 2008 and 2009.

Websense has been monitoring the spread of the virus since March 29, 2011 because of its spread is massive. When first detected, there are 28,000 newly infected web site address, but the number had grown enormously from day to day through the site using the CMS and the web version of the old machine. Infected websites will bring visitors to a web page notifying you that the sites visited contained malware and links to download fake antivirus.

WordPress.com "DOWN" Because of DDoS Attacks

Internet users since the last two days might not have time to visit a number of prominent sites. In fact, to this day, blogs are located at Wordpress.com still can not be opened in Indonesia.

This caused the death of WordPress server because of DDos attacks (distributed denial of service). In a statement, Wordpress stated that the attack traffic to their data centers reach several gigabits per second and sending millions of packets per second. No half-hearted, three data centers WordPress property in Chicago, San Antonio, and Dalla, the U.S., down by it.

This event not only causes the web address Wordpress.com not accessible, but also make about 25 million Internet sites and blogs address the expected use Wordpress.com service could not be accessed. Including leading media sites like TechCrunch and the Financial Post that get premium service.

The attack has happened twice. First on Thursday (03/03/2011) morning and had time to stop the Wordpress.com service for about three hours. Service was back to normal, before it was hit by a second attack on Friday (03/04/2011) morning U.S. time or Saturday afternoon. The second attack can be solved within one hour. However, the Wordpress.com service has not fully recovered to be accessed from all countries.

From China

"This is the largest and most deadly attacks that we face in the six-year history of our trip. We suspect it is based on political motives to silence the blogs that do not speak English, but we are still investigating and have not confirmed the exact cause," wrote Matt Mullenweg , founder of WordPress, in an e-mail reported by PCWorld.

According to Mullenweg, one of which is the address of the attacks targeted the Chinese-language blog using Wordpress. Address blog is also included in the list of blocked Baidu's Internet search service in China. WordPress does not know what the reason for the blog address to be targets of attacks and would not release his identity before the mitigation is completed.

"The majority of attacks coming from China (98 percent) and less from Japan and Korea," Mullenweg said, as reported by TechCrunch.

Usually such attacks take advantage of botnets or programs that have infected many computers in different parts of the world. Performer enable thousands of programs from a distance and ordered to flooded traffic a site at the same time to not be able to process so down.