Porn sites serve up Mpack attacks
June 22, 2007
Porn sites serve up Mpack attacks.
Several hundred pornography sites are surprising unwitting users with a smorgasbord of exploits via Mpack, the already notorious hacker tool kit that launched massive attacks earlier last week from a network of more than 10,000 compromised domains. Trend Micro Inc. has spotted nearly 200 porn domains −− most dealing in incestuous content −− that have either been hacked or are purposefully redirecting users to servers hosting Mpack, a professional, Russian−made collection of exploits that comes complete with a management console. Even though there are far fewer porn sites in this newly discovered infection chain than in last Monday's "Italian Job" attack −− called that because most of the 10,000+ hijacked sites were legitimate Italian domains −− they've managed to infect twice as many end users' PCs, said Trend Micro, in a posting to its malware blog. "Right now, we are not sure whether the porn sites are compromised to host the IFRAMES, are created to do so or are being paid to host the IFRAMES," acknowledged Trend Micro. The attack probably began June 17, the company said.
Trend Micro Malware Blog: http://blog.trendmicro.com/pornography−is−bad−for−you21/
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/
Porn sites serve up Mpack attacks.
Several hundred pornography sites are surprising unwitting users with a smorgasbord of exploits via Mpack, the already notorious hacker tool kit that launched massive attacks earlier last week from a network of more than 10,000 compromised domains. Trend Micro Inc. has spotted nearly 200 porn domains −− most dealing in incestuous content −− that have either been hacked or are purposefully redirecting users to servers hosting Mpack, a professional, Russian−made collection of exploits that comes complete with a management console. Even though there are far fewer porn sites in this newly discovered infection chain than in last Monday's "Italian Job" attack −− called that because most of the 10,000+ hijacked sites were legitimate Italian domains −− they've managed to infect twice as many end users' PCs, said Trend Micro, in a posting to its malware blog. "Right now, we are not sure whether the porn sites are compromised to host the IFRAMES, are created to do so or are being paid to host the IFRAMES," acknowledged Trend Micro. The attack probably began June 17, the company said.
Trend Micro Malware Blog: http://blog.trendmicro.com/pornography−is−bad−for−you21/
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/
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