Chapter
The Viral Friend Attack
16:27 - 21:26 (04:58)
The viral attack known as the "Sammy is My Hero" attack was a social engineering tactic used to exploit the friend system on MySpace, where visiting a user's profile would automatically add them as a friend and copy the code to their profile.
Clips
The speaker talks about the experience of creating the first worm on Hi5, a social media platform.
16:27 - 20:20 (03:52)
Worm, Hi5
Summary
The speaker talks about the experience of creating the first worm on Hi5, a social media platform. He details how the worm spread through the system by having users unknowingly copy it to their personal profiles.
ChapterThe Viral Friend Attack
Episode61: Samy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
A man named Sammy gets a message informing him of a strange, obfuscated code on his MySpace profile, so he decides to contact the website.
20:20 - 21:26 (01:05)
Cybersecurity
Summary
A man named Sammy gets a message informing him of a strange, obfuscated code on his MySpace profile, so he decides to contact the website. However, the code turns out to be a worm and it ends up giving him over 600,000 new friends and causing chaos.