132,000 Web Pages Infected with Malware
An SQL-injection assault infected 132,000 websites after installing malicious software from 318x.com last December 10, 2009. Afterwards, the said attack planted a backdoor Trojan Buzbuz which featured a rootkit. Buzbuz steals financial data like credit cards in particular.
According to ScanSafe, the first attack that they discovered was last November 21, 2009. They reported about the attack this December after they found out that 125,000 websites hosted at different geographical locations with different sizes had been already infected. It was proven when the iFrame started to appear on Google search. Some of the infected sites include: knowledgespeak.com, parisattitude.com, and yementimes.com.
Anyone who visited the infected web-pages get a hidden link that downloads code from the websites connected to 318x.com. This code exploits the un-patched versions of Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash or other Microsoft program of the host computer so that the malware, Backdoor.Win3.Buzus.croo, will be installed.
Landesman stated that a new malware gang is behind the particular SQL-injection assaults. The said gang is said to be not that familiar to the method of attack. Although it might be an experienced attackers gang, this huge assault is their primary attempt. Security researchers considered this a sophisticated mass website attack.
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