Tag: compromise
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Romanian university website compromised to serve Neutrino exploit kit
This blog post was written by Martijn Grooten and Adrian Luca. Like every summer, millions of prospective students around the world have been taking entry exams for the university courses they want to attend. Imagine how horrible it would be if those students, after visiting the website of their university of choice, suddenly found all…
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Romanian university website compromised to serve Neutrino exploit kit
This blog post was written by Martijn Grooten and Adrian Luca. Like every summer, millions of prospective students around the world have been taking entry exams for the university courses they want to attend. Imagine how horrible it would be if those students, after visiting the website of their university of choice, suddenly found all…
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Compromised site serves Nuclear exploit kit together with fake BSOD
Support scammers not lying about a malware infection for a change. During our work on the development of the VBWeb tests, which will be started soon, we came across an interesting case of an infected website that served not only the Nuclear exploit kit, but also a fake blue screen of death (BSOD) that attempted…
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Php.net compromised to serve malware
Researchers initially believed Google warning was a false positive. For a few days this week, the popular php.net website was serving malware to some of its visitors and was doing so in a stealthy way that initially confused researchers. There may be thousands and possibly millions of malicious websites on the Internet, but when you…
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Gumblar compromise growth continues
Dominant web threat infecting still more vulnerable sites. A major web compromise, estimated by some to represent over 40% of infected web pages last week, has continued growing in size and prevalence at an alarming rate. The threat, commonly dubbed ‘Gumblar’ after a domain used by early versions, but also known as ‘JS/Redir’, is thought…