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Brazilian Government Website Hacked, Set Up to Serve Fake Flash Player

13
Nov
2013

The website of the Jaqueira prefecture of Brazil (jaqueira.pe.gov.br) has been hacked and set up to serve a piece of malware disguised as Adobe Flash Player.

Brazilian government websites are highly vulnerable. This is demonstrated by the fact that many of them get hacked every week.

According to Webroot, the website of the Jaqueira prefecture is just one of the tens of Brazilian websites compromised and set up to serve the bogus Flash Player update. Around 63 additi…

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