This morning a hacker group called the GNAA created a worm that unleashed a flood of racist spam into users' dashboards. Here's how to protect yourself.
It seems like the first large blog to go down this morning belonged to The Daily Dot, which helped spread the infected posts to hundreds, if not thousands, of other blogs. The posts are signed by the GNAA, a notoriously inflammatory hacker group.
The target seems to have been the Tumblr Brony tag, a meeting place for fans of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
1) Maybe just don't go to Tumblr right now? This will be fixed soon, probably, but the exploit posts are embarrassing, and the more people get infected, the faster they spread.
2) If you DO go to Tumblr, only visit your Dashboard. Don't follow any direct links to Tumblr posts, or visit any Tumblrs directly — that's how this this spreads.
3) If you've been exploited, close all Tumblr tags, reopen your Dashboard, delete all the posts in your mass editor, and change your password. There's no evidence yet that this exploit actually accessed your account, or steals your password, but at this point it's probably still a good idea.
4) If you log out of your Tumblr account, you'll be able to view infected blogs without consequence.
The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) is an anti-blogging Internet-trolling organization. They have trolled several prominent websites and Internet personalities including Slashdot, Wikipedia, CNN, Barack Obama's campaign website, Alex Jones, and prominent members of the blogosphere. They have also released software products and leaked screenshots and information about upcoming operating systems. In addition, they maintain a wiki-based site dedicated to Internet commentary and a software repository.
Via: en.wikipedia.org
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