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[News] [Rival] Antivirus Company Runs Windows, Gets Hijacked, Serves Viruses

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Antivirus Company Runs Windows, Gets Hijacked, Serves Viruses
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:34:09 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Antivirus company's Web site downloads ... a virus

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| The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked 
| and is being used to install malicious software on visitors' computers, 
| security researchers said Thursday.  
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/07/Antivirus-companys-Web-site-downloads-a-virus_1.html

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.s-cop.com

Netblock Owner  IP address      OS      Web Server      Last changed
Net Access Corporation 1719 STE RT 10E Suite 111 Parsippany NJ 07054 US
207.106.22.8    Windows 2000    Microsoft-IIS/5.0       

It figures.


Related:

Chinese cyber-attacks allegedly launched against British government departments

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| The British NISCC warned of trojan attacks from Asia back in June 2005.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95514/from/rss09


Indian Bank Restores Site After Malware Attack

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| The bank has closed the site on Friday after it found that the site had been 
| hacked, 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070904/tc_pcworld/136716

More at the bottom.


Chinese military hacked into Pentagon

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| The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the 
| most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­
| officials.  
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html


German constitutional protection authorities foresee "secret service
procurement offensive" 

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| ...if Chinese attackers really had penetrated government computers, this 
| would pose a risk even if no confidential data was involved. "It is possible 
| to find out many things in this way - appointments, responsibilities, who is 
| working  on what - this is the first step in carrying out classical 
| espionage," said  Möller.     
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95236/from/rss09


Politicians want to be informed on Chinese Trojan attacks

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| Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
| said: "If there is clear evidence that the Chinese state is responsible for 
| these attacks, we cannot let the matter rest." According to a Spiegel report, 
| the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that 
| experts of the Chinese army have conducted the online espionage attacks 
| against the Federal Chancellery, the ministry of economics, the ministry of 
| research and also the ministry of foreign affairs.      
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94983/from/rss09


China Crafts Cyberweapons

,----[ Quote ]
| The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare
| units and developing viruses.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132284-pg,1/article.html(News)


Windows Security Hell - Another Victim: Bank of India

,----[ <3824653.5drpDRRNaJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ]
| Everything was fine, but they must have read Microsoft's 'quick facts' and
| changed (at the expense of the customers).
| 
| http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bankofindia.com
| 
| 67.15.253.6     Windows Server 2003     Microsoft-IIS/6.0       21-May-2007
| 64.39.18.73     Windows 2000            Microsoft-IIS/5.0       22-Jan-2005
| 204.176.140.102 Linux   Apache/1.3.27 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.1.2 
| mod_perl/1.24 
| 14-Jan-2003
| 204.176.140.102 Linux   Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.6 
| mod_perl/1.24 
| 12-Sep-2002
| 204.176.140.102 Linux   Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.1pl2
| mod_perl/1.24   27-Jun-2002
| 204.176.140.102 Linux   Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
| OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24       28-Jun-2001
| 204.176.140.102 unknown Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
| OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24       27-Jun-2001
| 204.176.140.102 Linux   Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
| OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24       22-Jan-2001
| 204.176.140.102 Linux   Apache/1.3.6 Unix PHP/3.0.7     17-Nov-2000
| 
| Here is what happened days ago:
| 
| Breaking: Bank of India seriously compromised
| 
| http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/breaking-bank-of-india-seriously.html
| 
| How the Online Trust Model is Broken - The Bank of India.com attack
| 
| ,----[ Quote ]
| | Manually entering the addresses into a browser will load some of them, 
| | suggesting that those upstream malware sources are active (others have 
| | already been shut down).  
| `----
| 
|
http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/08/31/265/How_the_Online_Trust_Model_is_Broken_-_The_Bank_of_India.com_attack
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