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U.S. Consulate Website in St. Petersburg Hacked

Robert McMillan writes on InfoWorld:

Security vendors are warning that two U.S. Department of State Web sites based in Russia could contain malware and should be avoided.

The most serious compromise was on the Web site for the U.S. Consulate General for St. Petersburg. About a week ago, researchers at Sophos PLC discovered that the site had been hacked and was apparently serving up malicious software to visitors.

The compromise seems to have been short-lived. By the time researchers were able to check the site manually, the infection had been cleaned up. By looking at a cached version of the page in question, however, they were able to find the malicious code in question.

A State Department spokeswoman said she was unaware of any breach.

posted by Fergie @ 9/13/2007 03:20:00 PM