IT security and control firmSophos
has reported on its blogthat webpages of the
US Consulate General in St.Petersburg, Russia, were attacked
byhackersearlier this week. The
infected pages have since been cleaned up.
The attack was part of a larger campaign by cybercriminals in
which vulnerable web servers were targeted. This resulted in more
than 400 webpages around the world being infected over the last
week, with the majority of the compromised pages hosted in
Russia.
"Unfortunately, while high profile sites such as the US
Consulate can be cleaned up quickly, we are seeing a dangerous
number of companies that are failing to act responsibly to retain
the sanctity of their sites," said Fraser Howard, principal virus
researcher at Sophos.
