Finjan has found 1,000 compromised websites owned by government
departments and leading brands.
The sites were compromised by a new round of mass attacks that
began this month, said Finjan.
The attackers are using a toolkit called "Asprox", which has
been around for some time.
It searches Google for web pages using the file extension [.asp]
and, once found, it launches SQL injection attacks.
"Since the list of these malware serving domains increases every
day, we believe this is just the tip of the iceberg for the scope
and impact of this attack," said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at
Finjan.
Sites that are compromised include:
- atdmt.com, which Microsoft plans to acquire as part of
Microsoft's Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group
- Official website of the City of Marysville, registered by
Marysville Police Department
- Official website of the cultural data bank of the Department of
Culture and Tourism of the State of Bahia, Brazil.
- Official website of the government of the City and County of
San Francisco
- Official website of the Queensland (Australia) Government
- Cocacolabrazil.com
- Snapple.com, one of the largest soft drink makers in the
US
- Official website of the University of California
- The Baltimore Times
- BMW official site in Mexico
More details of the compromised sites can be found
here
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