Hot on the heels of the NBC.com hack last week, Websense® Security Labs™ researchers were alerted by SANS to another high profile website compromise on Friday: bible.org. It appears that the offending code has now been removed from the bible.org website. At first glance, this seemed to be a run-of-the-mill “compromise, redirect, exploit” chain; however, closer analysis revealed […]
Updated: February, 22. 3:00AM GMT. Another high profile website has been hacked to redirect visitors to malicious URLs, websites that seek to infect visitors for further scamming and cyber fraud. Last week it was Facebook, this time it is the website of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The major American television network’s site at NBC.com […]
Thanks to the Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network, we have detected that an Iranian website has been compromised to serve a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called VertexNet. This website does not have a high Alexa rank, but is one of a few cases which has caught our attention. The targeted website (reachable at the URL: hxxp://www.sarifire.ir) seems to be a portal documenting the activities of firefighters in the […]
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