St. Petersburg US Consulate website hacked
Malware served by official government site.
Web-watchers at Sophos have reported spotting malware hosted on the website of the US Consulate in St.
Petersburg, using obfuscated JavaScript and hidden iframes to silently download trojans to vulnerable systems.
The hack was part of a sizeable attack targeting vulnerable web servers worldwide last week, with over 400 sites,
mostly based in Russia, found to be carrying similar malicious code. The US Consulate site admins responded
rapidly to warnings from Sophos, and closed the security holes which left their systems open to the attack
as well as removing the downloader code.
A detailed blog entry describing the attack is
here.
14 September 2007
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