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Trend Micro Suffers Web Attack

Posted by Bezhou Feng on 15 March 2008 - 18:30 · 19 comments & 10203 views

Of the more than 20,000 web pages affected by a massive internet attack which started earlier this week, security vendor Trend Micro's site was among the victims, embarassing as it may be. Infected sites attempt to install password-stealing programs with a special affinity for online video games onto viewers' computers. Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company's site had been hacked Thursday: "A portion of our site -- some pages were attacked," he said. "We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night -- and took corrective action." Although researchers are still puzzled as to how the attacks took place, the use of Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology seems to be a common trend among infected sites.

Thanks for the news tip, Choto Cheeta!

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(1 reply) #1 Posted by XeonBuilder on 15 Mar 2008 - 20:00: Although researchers are still puzzled as to how the attacks took place, the use of Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology seems to be a common trend among infected sites.

Nice way to pass the buck...

(1 reply) #2 Posted by funkymunky on 15 Mar 2008 - 20:09: The top "hackers" seem to be extremely clever...

But all this so they can get WOW usernames and passwords??

#3 Posted by Choto Cheeta on 15 Mar 2008 - 20:15: If you please visit the mcafee posted video explanation page, you may see not just your Windows credentials, they target to infect an web URL tracker, a keylogger as well as the trojan unloader for collecting the data !!

(2 replies) #4 Posted by buletov on 15 Mar 2008 - 20:45: Talking about Trend Micro... everyone please visit:
http://www.scriptumlibre.org/Boycott_Trend_Micro

(1 reply) #5 Posted by n_K on 15 Mar 2008 - 23:12: "Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology seems to be a common trend among infected sites"
What I've been saying for years... Oh and PWNT. Go well together really

#6 Posted by timbo3 on 16 Mar 2008 - 00:09: Remember Webattack? They're still around, it's called snapfiles now.

/Reminds me of the good old TechTV days.

#7 Posted by excalpius on 16 Mar 2008 - 05:04: FTA "The JavaScript attack code hosted on these infected Web sites takes advantage of bugs that have already been patched, so users whose software is up-to-date are not at risk."

(2 replies) #8 Posted by prince_niceguy on 16 Mar 2008 - 06:37: when they will realise to start using php, jsp ... anything on IIS gets attacked... try getting the same on apache, tomcat etc...

(3 replies) #9 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 17 Mar 2008 - 14:40: Things like this make me laugh at all the people saying "I don't need an anti-virus because I know how to use a computer and I don't visit dodgy sites".

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