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Network Solutions Responds to Site Defacements

WHIR Web Hosting Industry News

January 20, 2010

After hackers defaced hundreds of websites hosted by Network Solutions, the company said Tuesday that it is monitoring this threat and working with law enforcement organizations as it works to restore the impacted sites. "We have discovered the cause of a

"Hackers were able to add a file displaying illegitimate content on top of the customer website content. This was an issue on multiple servers and unknown intruders were able to get through by using a file inclusion technique. There was no danger to any personally identifiable or secure information." Bellamkonda noted that after this issue is sorted out, Network Solutions will be undertaking precautionary actions that may include some server configuration modifications.

Ransomware - Buy Back Your Own Files

f-secure.com

January 8, 2010

Initial infection makes it look as if certain files - mostly Microsoft Office documents, video, music and image files - on the infected system had been "corrupted" and a recommended utility will "fix" them.

If the utility is downloaded and executed, the luckless user finds that it can "only repair one file in unregistered version". To repair - or more accurately, decrypt - anything more, the user has to buy the product. Think about this from the users point of view. "Oh my god I've lost my important files!" "Thank god I found this great product that recovered them perfectly for just $89.95" "I'm going to recommend Data Doctor to all my friends". Effectively, user is forced to pay a ransom for his own files and the user doesn't even realize he's paying a ransom.

MP3 spam spreads holiday cheer

blog.commtouch.com

December 25, 2009

Commtouch Labs reported a recent attack involving MP3 messages. The email body and subject line were blank, as seen below, and each message had an MP3 attached

While the emails were all subject-less, the MP3s were creatively named. File names include: beauteously, unsecularise, sporicide, cookshack, teentsier, muftis, zoogeography and squishiness.

DNSChanger Trojans and DSL Modems

f-secure.com

December 11, 2009

Occasionally reports of DNSChanger trojan variants altering the DNS information on both the infected system and on certain ADSL modems.

There are a couple twists on the basic strategy - the trojan may modify the modem's settings to use a rogue DNS server (that serves tainted information) or it can install a DHCP driver on the modem. Either way, it redirects users to a malicious site doing drive-by downloads. The trojan gets access to the modem's settings by brute-forcing the user name and password, which many people leave set as default. A simple, user-doable prevention measure is to change the default to a strong password.

New Wave of SQL Injection Attacks

f-secure.com

December 10, 2009

Reports have reached us of a fresh SQL injection attack that has compromised many websites. A Google search of the malicious iframes used in the attacks nets over 100,000 hits.

As is typical, the initial iframes lead to HTML pages, which load iframes containing obfuscated JavaScript, which then attempts to exploit the unfortunate visitor.

Sourceforge Wiki Demonstrates User Generated Content Threat | Commtouch Café

blog.commtouch.com

July 9, 2009

Sourceforge.net is one of the most well-respected technology download sites on the Internet, as evidenced by its Google page rank of 9 (out of possible 10), and the fact that it is ranked among the top 200 sites according to Alexa. However, recently Sourc

One of Sourceforge's subdomains is a wiki that allows users to add their own relevant content. Apparently some spammers saw this as an opportunity to do some search engine bombing. They filled up pages of the wiki with pornographic keywords, with links to their pornography pages (see screenshot below). The keywords and links are designed to leverage a highly ranked site (e.g. Sourceforge) to provide inbound links to their pornography site, causing it to rank highly in search engines as well.

US Copyright Law, King Lear, and Jammie Thomas-Rasset

groklaw.net

June 21, 2009

If only the RIAA could understand that they could benefit from P2P, if they only would try, instead of fighting it, which can never succeed. Technology always wins.

I'm not even convinced that she is guilty, by the way. You know why? Because for many years I did "tech support" for my family and for an office I worked in. And I saw how easy it was for weird things to happen to a Windows computer that the owner didn't even know about. There are, they say, millions of computers owned by bots for malicious purposes, after all. She says she didn't do it. What if she really didn't? How would she prove it? How would *you*, if it were you?

US School Districts Suffer Virus Attacks

Spam Fighter

May 27, 2009

Two school districts in the US have been struck by computer viruses during the 2nd week of May 2009.

In the foremost incident, engineers are fighting to remove a sinister worm, which has repeatedly infected all the PCs at the Chariho School District situated in East Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Now this is just wrong! - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

f-secure.com

April 16, 2009

Searching for good things with bad results is something that now happens on a regular basis. But now it's personal - searching for "f-secure" leads to rogue products.

A demonstration of how searching for security software may provide ads for malware.

Twitter Blog: Wily Weekend Worms

blog.twitter.com

April 12, 2009

The worm introduced to Twitter this weekend was similar to the famous Samy worm which spread across the popular MySpace social-networking site a while back.

Twitter asserts that no passwords, phone numbers, or other sensitive information was compromised as part of the attacks, but the attackers were able to continue a series of bombardments across 3 days.

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