Falle-Internet.de reported another case of eBay hijacking. A spokesperson for the German watchdog group said scammers hijacked a German PowerSeller account and said that, rather than defrauding buyers, the scammers spread malware containing a keylogger and some backdoors via eBay item descriptions. "They used javascript and java to address a known vulnerability; user's computers were affected by just viewing the respective listings," he wrote in an email to AuctionBytes.
Falle-Internet published an account on its German-language website. A translation tool is available from Google. In the article, Falle-Internet criticized eBay's response time to the incident and speculated recent layoffs may have been a contributing factor. (eBay laid off 40% of its German workforce last year, transferring a portion of the customer service to Dublin, Ireland.)
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Falle-Internet.de reported another case of eBay hijacking. A spokesperson for the German watchdog group said scammers hijacked a German PowerSeller account and said that, rather than defrauding buyers, the scammers spread malware containing a keylogger and some backdoors via eBay item descriptions. "They used javascript and java to address a known vulnerability; user's computers were affected by just viewing the respective listings," he wrote in an email to AuctionBytes.