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myspace hack warning and fix
By chris | October 10, 2007
Lots of people are having their myspace accounts hacked by inadvertently entering in their email and password on bogus myspace login sites. What makes this worse is that actual myspace profiles are redirecting users to fake myspace sites, thus proliferating the problem throughout the myspace community.
Once hacked, the folks who successfully fooled you are altering your myspace profile with hidden html image maps to then fool your friends. They then pose as your friends and post bogus comments with things such as ‘Gift Card’ ads.
They change your myspace code to display a hidden image map over the top portion of your myspace account. [see image with red box to show where this image map is created] Clicking anywhere within this red box will take you to a bogus myspace login page.
This is one example of a bogus login page I’ve found:
“http://home.myspace.com.index.cfm.fuseaction.user
.mytoken.3xttzbc5.bknk89o.com/login.php”
See how it’s not an actual myspace.com domain? The website is actually bknk89o.com
Check your myspace profile code for this image map code and remove it if you find it. Note that the actual myspace msplinks.com redirect link may be different:
———-
<style type="text/css">
a.o { text-decoration: none } img.l { border-width: 0px;
width: 1280px; height: 220px; top: 1px; left: 1px; position
:
fixed; }
</style>
<a class="o" href=" http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8
vaG9tZS5teXNwYWNlLmNvbS5pbmRleC5jZm0uZnVzZWFjdGlvb
i51c2VyLk15VG9rZW4uM3h0dHpiYzUuYmtuazg5by5jb20vbG9naW4ucGhw">
<img class="l" src=" http://x.myspace.com/images/clear.gif">
</a>
</style>
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I realize that myspace hacks have been around for a while but I know people who are currently being bothered by this. I just wanted to post a little info to help them out.
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