Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm (XSS worm) that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar. Within …

Oct 4, 2015 · It was around midnight on October 4, 2005, in Los Angeles, when Samy Kamkar, then a 19-year-old hacker, released what has come to be known as the “Samy worm,” perhaps …

Technical explanation of The MySpace Worm Also called the "Samy worm" or "JS.Spacehero worm" Click here to read the entertaining story of the development, release, and ensued …

The Samy worm, the largest known XSS worm, infected over 1 million MySpace profiles in less than 20 hours. The virus' author was sued and entered a plea agreement to a felony charge. [4]

In 2005, Kamkar released the Samy worm, the first publicly released self-propagating cross-site scripting worm, onto MySpace. [10] The worm carried a payload that would display the string …

Aug 24, 2023 · One of the earliest instances of a CSRF attack being identified and discussed is the infamous Samy Worm incident that unfolded on the popular social networking site …

Sep 2, 2024 · This attack, known as the Samy worm, became infamous for how quickly it spread by exploiting a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. You can learn more about this incident …

A MySpace user found an XSS vulnerability on the site, and he wrote a payload called „Samy Worm.” This payload was a stored XSS, which was first uploaded by him on his own profile. …

Oct 13, 2005 · One clever MySpace user looking to expand his buddy list recently figured out how to force others to become his friend, and ended up creating the first self-propagating cross-site …

Oct 17, 2005 · A JavaScript exploit that has been called the first "Web 2.0 worm" knocked out MySpace.com - and the $500m-valued website, recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News …