New Orkut have been affected by a worm named as “Bom Sabado”. Bom Sabado is the Portuguese word for “Good Saturday”. It sends automated scraps to your friends with the content “Bom Sabado”. It also adds a lot of unnecessary communities to your profile. It is an XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attack. It is the second such major attack in the recent time. The previous attack was on Twitter.
Google officials have suggested user to stay away from Orkut until the problem have been rectified.
If you are already affected by the worm, please change your password by going to the following link:
https://www.google.com/accounts/EditPasswd?hl=en
Update on 26-09-2010:
Google contained the worm “Bom Sabado”. They are now working on the affected profiles. They will remove all those unnecessary communities from your profile. If you have been affected by the worm,it’s highly recommended to change your password.
Source: Google help forum
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