Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by 27182818284 on Saturday November 04, 2017 @08:24PM (#15627534)

Sometimes it certainly seems that way, but there was also period of time when Apache dominated the web and yet Microsoft's IIS was having a lot more exploits despite Apache having more market share. Marketshare isn't the only factor, but it probably is a factor.

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Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by bartread on Sunday November 05, 2017 @04:32AM (#15628790)

I wonder if that might have been due to Windows market share? Windows was everywhere on the desktop, and those Windows desktops provide a good intermediary vector for attacking instances of IIS on Windows Servers.

Also, thinking back to the bad old days and the script-kiddie-eseque of many viruses of the early 2000s (iloveyou, et al), I suspect it may come down to attacking what you know: Windows was more prevalent and better understood so that's what people tried to break.

Not my field though, so all just speculation.

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Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by skinnymuch on Sunday November 05, 2017 @02:41AM (#15628573)

We're the exploits helped out in any way by Windows itself or were they solely exploiting IIS alone? Never used it but I assume at least before it may have been pretty integrated into Windows.

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