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Manipulated ratings at eBay?

March 24th, 2008 by Andreas from XavierMedia.com

TrendMicro is this morning reporting about manipulated ratings at eBay.co.uk. The ratings at eBay show the users history using stars. The more stars (five is the maximum) a user got the more successful trades have been completed and the more trusted a user can be.

The manipulation works like this. The unsuspecting user visits one of the auction pages at eBay which contains an embed (and hidden) Shockwave file. The user is redirected to a .aspx file in Russia, which means that the user is doing business with someone he can't identify :( . So be alert when you do business on eBay. Make sure you're still at the eBay site at all times!

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One Response to “Manipulated ratings at eBay?”

  1. Graham Cluley, Sophos Says:

    There's much more information about this on Sophos's website. See our analyst's blog entry at http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/03/1199.html

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