I got Spam?!

© Lachlan Hardy

Businessweek's website has been hit by hackers. Security vendor Sophos discovered the attack last week. Hundreds of pages of the popular site have been infected with malicious Javascript that redirects users to a Russian website that attempts to download malware to their computers.

Of the 2157 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 214 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 09/15/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 09/11/2008. Malicious software includes 721 scripting exploit(s), 4 trojan(s), 3 exploit(s). Successful Infection resulted in an average of 2 new processes on the target machine.

Heres a link to an interesting video explaining the attack.

• Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 4
• Hackers Push Trojan With Promises of 'Nude Angelina Jolie' Pics
• Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 7
• Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 2
• More on the BusinessWeek Attack
• Inside Botnets
• Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 1
• Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 6
• Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 5
• Understanding and Fighting Malware-Conclusion

Filed under: Malware Tags: by admin Date 17 September, 2008