{"id":46386,"date":"2023-12-22T16:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/watch-out-no\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:18:49","slug":"watch-out-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/watch-out-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out -no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Image credit: Shutterstock) Cybersecurity researchers from eSentire have discovered a glitch in how Slack renders Wikipedia articles that could be abused to trick users into opening malware-laden websites.In popular messaging apps, including Slack, when a user forgets to add a space between a full stop and the first letter of the next sentence, the app will perceive it as a domain, and render the link accordingly.\u00a0Typing \u201cface.book me for\u2026,\u201d for instance, will become http:\/\/face.book.\u00a0Now, if a malicious user edits a Wikipedia article at the right place and adds a reference footnote, they can trick Slack into rendering a link that doesn\u2019t exist in the article. 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