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The current hoax apparently also adds a bogus detail to say that:īy default, antivirus software only scans for. The introduction of the warning about charging your iPhone gives the old story a bit of a modern twist, and takes advantage of a recent expose about the potential risk to iPhones (now patched) posed by booby-trapped chargers. Johannes Ulrich, quoted back in 2004, is still the Internet Storm Center CTO, not James Thompson.Īnd although F-Secure’s best-known antivirus expert is indeed – today as in 2004 – a certain Mr Hypponen, his first name is Mikko, not Fred. Antivirus expert Fred Hypponen of F-Secure warned on Wednesday that the JPEG exploit can also damage your Iphone if you charge it with your computer.

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The code also installs a back door that can give hackers remote control over the infected computer. "It is a virus, but it didn't spread very far. "It's been done in the past, but with HTML code instead of the JPEG," said James Thompson, chief technical officer for SANS' Internet Storm Center, the organization's online-security research unit. Antivirus expert Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure warned on Wednesday that the JPEG exploit can also dodge antivirus technology.Īccording to the Hoax-Slayer website (which has itself been around since 2003), the current hoax tells much the same story, with some minor changes in detail, and some deliberate mis-identification of the “experts” being quoted (my emphasis):Ī virus that exploits the recently discovered JPEG vulnerability has been discovered spreading over google's giraffe pictures. "It's been done in the past, but with HTML code instead of the JPEG," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technical officer for SANS' Internet Storm Center, the organization's online-security research unit. Indeed, if you dig around online for nine-year-old stories about the MS04-028 vulnerability, you will find articles like this one:Ī virus that exploits the recently discovered JPEG vulnerability has been discovered spreading over America Online's instant-messaging program.

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Patches from Microsoft headed off that vulnerability at the pass with security update MS04-028, but the concern at the time was understandable, since the JPEG format was, and still is, one of the most commonly-used image types on the internet.

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This security hole could, in fact, have allowed booby-trapped images on web pages to inject malware onto your computer, in the same way that booby-trapped DOC and PDF files are often used for that purpose these days. Way back in 2004, a lot of media coverage was given to a JPEG vulnerability in the heart of Windows. It’s all a pack of made up rubbish – and here’s how you can tell.

There’s enough here to be mildly believable: readers may have heard of the riddle that asks you to change your profile picture if you get it wrong search engine results can be manipulated by cybercriminals and software bugs have been found in the past that allowed booby-trapped JPEG files to deliver malware.

So don’t change your profile picture to a giraffe.

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These booby-trapped JPEG files install malware with a range of dangerous side-effects, including stealing your username and password.

Crooks have tried to take advantage of this by poisoning Google’s image searches with booby-trapped giraffe images.

There’s a Facebook game in which players who fail to answer a riddle correctly are urged to set their picture to a giraffe as a harmlessly light-hearted signal they got it wrong.

The bogus reasoning in the hoax is somewhat contorted, but it seems to go something like this: The whole thing is a load of rot, of course, and just the latest in a long line of internet hoaxes. My next thought was, “But if I were to decide on a giraffe – and they are majestic animals, let’s face it – why would that be a problem?” When I heard about this, my first reaction was, “Of all the things I could choose to represent myself, what’s the chance that today I’d suddenly want it to be a giraffe?” A bizarre warning is circulating on Facebook urging you not to change your profile picture to a giraffe.