Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Javascript Injection Claims UN and UK Government Websites

Robert Vamosi writes on the C|Net "D3F3NS3 1N D3PTH" Blog:

Comparisons between two mass Javascript injection attacks suggest they may be related, according to a security company. The latest attack has compromised various sites including one United Nations and several UK government sites with links to malicious servers.

On Tuesday Websense reported seeing distinct similarities between attacks staged earlier this month and over the weekend. Specifically, they cite the use of the same tool to execute the attack being resident on the malicious server. Last summer various groups used the MPACK toolkit to propagate a similar series of Javascript injections.

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