MPack malware exposes cheapskate web hosts
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Apache and the Domino Effect Poor configuration of Apache servers allowed multiple websites hosted on the same physical server to become infected in last month's Mpack compromise.â¦
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Hundreds of porn sites are surprising users with exploits via Mpack, the hacker toolkit featured in 'Italian Job' attacks.
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A new Trojan horse modifies infected PC's hosts file to replace Google text ads with ads from another source.
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Another type of wiki-fiddler Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in wiki software packages to establish networks of compromised computers.â¦
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A new variant of the Santy worm, which attacks Web pages usuing the PHP bulletin board software, appeared this week. Earlier variants used Google to find vulnerable Web pages; the new
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Security researchers studying the latest Internet crime trends have discovered a new Eastern European website that uses a large botnet to infect vulnerable PCs. The operators of the botnet and website charge clients for each successful PC infection.
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Workshop Windows virus cleanup primer
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Blog: Popular add-ons could have their update process hijacked by man-in-the-middle attacks.
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A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims' computers, it taunts them too.
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Honeypot project shows more than adult sites contain malicious threats.
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(InfoWorld) - Attackers have targeted the zero-day VML vulnerability on an unknown number of Windows-based machines, using a layered approach that first involved exploiting a hole in cpanel, an application that's popular with Web hosting services. AccordingÂ to posts on the support forum of HostGator, criminals accessed the company's servers using the cpanel hole, which was also a zero-day vulnerability. Once in, they planted code on many of the Web sites of HostGator's customers. End users who used Internet Explorer to visit those sites and had not followed work-around procedures were then infected with a virus, which attacks vector markup language in Windows. "The person or group that did this is very intelligent, and obviously knows how to plan a big attack," a HostGator official wrote in the forum. "Since this exploit could have worked on anyone running cpanel it had nothing to do with how secure we were. We suspect it was done by someone in china as we have a small piece of information supporting this." HostGator says the vulnerability in cpanel has been patched. The attack demonstrates the growing sophistication of computer attacks. According to HostGator, the cpanel vulnerability was discovered about a month ago, leading officials to speculate that the attackers waited for a zero-day to emerge before exploiting it.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Phel program attempts to use an HTML file to infect computers running Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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Virus hijacks PCs and uses them to send short message spam to mobile phones.
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A new malware strategy that involves tracking IP addresses to see when a machine has already been infected could prove vexing for those attempting to hunt down malicious code, according to Finjan. The new tactic is already turning up on compromised Web pages.
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In brief Exploit circulating for unpatched vuln
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Reports of vulnerabilities found by some peer-to-peer file sharers prompt patch.
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Una migliore tecnologia anti-spyware e una protezione maggiore contro worm mass-mailing e minacce miste potenziano lâultima versione del software antivirus di McAfee. McAfee ha rilasciato la versione 2005