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EU Crime Wesite Taken Over By Bandidos

Ambrose McNevin writes on The Inquirer:

A site which took over the address of an EU-funded, anti-crime project is now pumping out malware.

At www.CTOSE.org instead of getting data on how to investigate crime you get directed to an odd collection of services offering everything from hotel reservations to insurance. Attempting to move around the site throws up virus and Trojan warnings.

Ctose.org (Cyber Tools On-line Search for Evidence), originally part of an attempt to establish an international framework for computer investigations, was set up by the EU in 2003.

The web site now claims it is still offering information on the CTOSE project but instead carries sponsored links, along with lots of stuff in Spanish including a link to Dell.es. When asked to examine it, Sophos said the site looked “spammy” and that there was some dodgy looking java script on it.

posted by Fergie @ 1/23/2008 03:40:00 PM