Evil Hackers Use Olympics as Springboard
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
And speaking of news spam, here's an Olympic Games variation. Web sites carrying news of the Beijing games have been targeted in a new wave of SQL-injection attacks. Vulnerabilities in sites, including New Delhi Television Ltd.'s NDTV.com, have been booby-trapped with exploits designed to install malware onto users' computers. News sites that fail to secure their back-end databases are vulnerable to attack by hackers who are pushing a variant of the Asprox botnet Trojan horse. Read all about it at The Register.
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