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Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites

2008-05-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b67bc8 in Network World on Security
 
A botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher
 
Tags: sql-injection attack tool, web sites, botnet, security researcher, move, collection, hack, pcs
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites who were cleaned before they could be analyzed, mainly popular sites who get crawled several times daily. However, Yahoo's and MSN's search engines, with MSN providing Archive.org type of historical crawling content, have been an invaluable resource in providing the actionable historical intelligence in the form of what was embedded at...
 
Tags: sites, sites wrongly, web sites, malware, malicious site, site, single site offers, sites notification services, popular sites
 
 
 
 
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More CNET Sites Under IFRAME Attack

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2008-03-06 10:50:57 by HASH0x8b1424c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites are involved in the campaign, including ZDNet's international sites such as, ZDNet India, ZDNet U.K, and ZDNet Australia, but the abovementioned ones. And so, we have three more sites part of CNET Networks' portfolio, getting injected with more IFRAMEs, abusing their search engine's local caching, and storing of any keyword feature , in...
 
Tags: iframe, cnet sites, sites, iframe-ed pages, pages, cnet, iframe redirects, iframe campaign, campaign
 
 
 
 
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More High Profile Sites IFRAME Injected

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2008-03-12 09:49:36 by HASH0x8b74b5c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites targeted by the same group within the past 48 hours, with number of locally cached and IFRAME injected pages within their search engines NCSU Libraries - lib.ncsu.edu - 372,000 pages FullDownloads.us - fulldownloads.us - 13,000 pages Central Statistics Office Ireland - cso.ie - 10,300 pages DBLife Frontpage - dblife.cs.wisc.edu -...
 
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Most malware comes from legit sites, says researcher

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3ff04 in Network World on Security
 
The majority of Web sites serving up attack code are legitimate domains that have been hacked by criminals, a security researcher said in a report released Wednesday. It's the first time that legitimate sites outnumber the malicious ones hackers purposefully set up to spread malware
 
Tags: spread malware, web sites, attack code, sites outnumber, security researcher, time, domains, criminals, report
 
 
 
 
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Video Blogger Kevin Sites Keeps One Foot in the War Zone

2008-04-18 18:00:00 by Annaliza Savage in Wired Security
 
Solo video journalist Kevin Sites talks about parachuting in to disaster sites and war zones. After years of filming in "Hot Zones," he's helping to set up a sewing circle in the Congo
 
Tags: hot zones, war zones, disaster sites, circle, congo, set
 
 
 
 
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Web attack worm infecting hapless sites

2008-05-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b417b0 in Network World on Security
 
The Internet Storm Center, which tracks online threats, warns Wednesday that a worm is infecting vulnerable Web sites with a database attack. Though relatively small by Web attack standards with about 4,000 reported infected sites, the assault adds invisible code to a site that can force visitors to download malware onto their PC. Bad PR, to say...
 
Tags: sites, vulnerable web sites, internet storm center, tracks online threats, web attack standards, invisible code, database attack, download malware, force visitors
 
 
 
 
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Phishers use DNS tricks to direct users to bad sites

2008-01-31 00:00:00 by HASH0x8bb0f6c in Network World on Security
 
The latest information on phishing indicates that fraudsters are increasingly using malicious software to direct users to their deceptive sites Protecting the Enterprise Network Through Web Security Advertisement New focus is being placed on securing Web-based threats
 
Tags: direct users, malicious software, enterprise network, web security, deceptive sites, advertisement, fraudsters, information, focus
 
 
 
 
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Firefox 3.0's malware blocker whacks access to popular add-on sites

2008-02-18 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The anti-malware tool that debuted last week in Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 is blocking users from reaching the Web sites for a pair of popular add-ons to the open-source browser
 
Tags: open-source browser, firefox, anti-malware tool, web sites, popular add-ons, pair, week, beta, users