[ISN] Hackers plant Firefox 0day on Nobel Peace Prize website

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:07:43 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/26/firefox_0day_report/

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
The Register
26th October 2010

Malicious hackers have exploited an unpatched vulnerability in the 
latest version of Firefox to attack people visiting the Nobel Peace 
Prize website, a Norway-based security firm said on Tuesday.

Mozilla representatives confirmed a "critical vulnerability" in versions 
3.5 and 3.6 of the open-source browser. It came several hours after the 
organization members were said to have made the same admission on this 
password-protected Bugzilla page.

According to Einar Oftedal, a detection executive at Norman ASA in Oslo, 
the official website for the Nobel Peace prize, nobelpeaceprize.org, was 
compromised so that it contained an iframe link to a malicious server.

“This iframe has a multi exploit backend and serves exploits for 
Firefox, including a working remote exploit for firefox 3.6.11,” he said 
in an instant message to The Register. “We didn't see any 0day for IE,” 
he added, referring to Microsoft's browser.

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