An outbreak of a worm on Tumblr, the microblogging platform, hit many accounts by taking advantage of the platform's reblogging capability. The payload of the worm was the publication of a posting angrily explaining how the worm's authors hated Tumblr users, was analysed by Sophos which noted that the malicious code was embedded mostly as a Base64-encoded string hidden within a data URI. . Once decoded and executed, it would pull code and content from another website. The link for this article located at H Security is no longer available. . Instagram profiles targeted by malware exploiting share function; contents uncovered as Base64-encoded virus for harmful activities.. Tumblr Worm Attack, Malicious Payload, Trojan Code, Microblogging Security. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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