AplusWebMaster
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FYI…
- http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/art…/consulate.html
13 September 2007 - "…Webpages of the US Consulate General in Saint Petersburg, Russia, were compromised by hackers earlier this week. The infected pages have since been cleaned up. The attack was part of a larger campaign by cybercriminals in which vulnerable web servers were targeted. This resulted in more than 400 webpages around the world being infected over the last week. The majority of the compromised pages were hosted in Russia… By retrieving a copy of one of the infected Consulate pages from an internet cache, Sophos experts were able to identify that the cybercriminals had planted malicious code known as Mal/ObfJS-C*, that then attempted to load further malware from a remote server. This malware includes an additional malicious script that attempts to exploit several browser vulnerabilities in order to install a Trojan horse that could be used to steal business critical data and personal details…"
* http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/malobfjsc.html
- http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/art…/consulate.html
13 September 2007 - "…Webpages of the US Consulate General in Saint Petersburg, Russia, were compromised by hackers earlier this week. The infected pages have since been cleaned up. The attack was part of a larger campaign by cybercriminals in which vulnerable web servers were targeted. This resulted in more than 400 webpages around the world being infected over the last week. The majority of the compromised pages were hosted in Russia… By retrieving a copy of one of the infected Consulate pages from an internet cache, Sophos experts were able to identify that the cybercriminals had planted malicious code known as Mal/ObfJS-C*, that then attempted to load further malware from a remote server. This malware includes an additional malicious script that attempts to exploit several browser vulnerabilities in order to install a Trojan horse that could be used to steal business critical data and personal details…"
* http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/malobfjsc.html