http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=107833 By John E. Dunn Techworld 01 December 2008 TV network CBS has become the latest big name to have it website used to host malware, a security company has reported. It appears that Russian malware distributors were able to launch another iFrame attack on a sub-domain of the cbs.com site so that it was serving remote malware to any visitors. A user's vulnerability to the malware attack launched by the site hack would depend on a number of factors, including the type of security used on a PC, the operating system, and possibly the browser version. "This saga confirms our many previous warnings that obfuscated code posing a serious threat to Internet users' PCs, said Finjan CTO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, who has devoted a fair amount of time in recent months to finding these hacks. "Our Threats Reports have continued to identify the increasing use of code obfuscation as a means of bypassing traditional signature-based solutions in order to propagate malware," Ben-Itzak continued, taking a pop at the anti-virus products against which his company in part competes. [...] _______________________________________________ Help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Mon Dec 01 2008 - 23:26:50 PST
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