Tuesday, June 09, 2009
British Party Website Infected By Malware
With the UK in the midst of both Local Government and European elections, it has emerged that the website of the Communist Party of Britain has been infected with malicious code. A report claims that hackers have altered a Microsoft Silverlight script so that it will execute malicious JavaScript code, identified as Mal/Iframe-F. The code is designed to deliver funky animation and video effects to website visitors - but actually tries to invisibly download malicious code from web servers based in China and Russia.
The majority of infections of this type come from SQL injection attacks against vulnerable websites, but in this case only one file appears to be infected, suggesting a specific hack. A spokesperson for the British Communist Party has subsequently confirmed that there was an infection but it had since been cleaned up. It is not clear how many visitors to the site have been potentially infected by the malware.
IMO: But is it really the Maoists ? It could even be a major UK party, not wanting to lose even more votes. We will possibly never know.
The majority of infections of this type come from SQL injection attacks against vulnerable websites, but in this case only one file appears to be infected, suggesting a specific hack. A spokesperson for the British Communist Party has subsequently confirmed that there was an infection but it had since been cleaned up. It is not clear how many visitors to the site have been potentially infected by the malware.
IMO: But is it really the Maoists ? It could even be a major UK party, not wanting to lose even more votes. We will possibly never know.
# posted by uv : 4:16 AM
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