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0 pointsteraflop13y ago0 comments

Since I don't have an mtgox account, and I have a fair degree of confidence that the code posted can't possibly escape the Java sandbox, I decided to live dangerously and try loading the page.

Here's the warning screen that comes up when you load it: http://i.imgur.com/sXDoFLt.png Note the self-signed certificate from "North Sumatra".

Gotta say, I have no sympathy for someone who clicks through that warning screen and then complains that their credentials got stolen.

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trotsky13y ago

Usually these exploit kits will use useragent and the reported plugins to decide what versions of the page to send. If this is a pro job if you were running an exploitable version of java (which a majority of people tend to be) it would push an applet that used an exploit to load its stage 2. But if it decides it doesn't have an exploit for you it takes a different approach like scareware or prompt to run etc.

obilgic13y ago

Ops :/ today I just clicked through that screen to run the bitcoin miner i downloaded from bitminter.com. Because I did not realize that, this is a warning from java, really confusing.

TazeTSchnitzel13y ago

Well, you had downloaded an application and you were fairly sure of its purpose, I can't blame you there.

pokoleo13y ago

I'm pretty skeptical, so this isn't good enough for me.

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