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Presentation sharing website hit by hackers to distribute rogue anti-virus

posted onAugust 5, 2009
by hitbsecnews

The Slideshare.net website is being used to distribute malware after being exploited by hackers.

According to a blog by ESET threat researchers Sebastián Bortnik, Pierre-Marc Bureau and David Harley, the Latin America office has detected that the site is being used to create fake slide decks.

Slideshare.net is used to share presentations, and hackers are using social engineering techniques to pass them off as having themes that will appeal to potential victims. ESET claimed that it had detected a file passed off as a cracked download of ESET's NOD32 scanner. The presentation includes a slide that has a single link, and adds in the SourceForge.Net logo to give more credibility to the download.

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