Mass Hack Infects Tens of Thousands of Sites

An anonymous reader writes "Tens of thousands of Web sites have been compromised by an automated SQL injection attack, and although some have been cleaned, others continue to serve visitors a malicious script that tries to hijack their PCs using multiple exploits, security experts said this weekend. Hacked sites included both .edu and .gov domains, the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center reported in a warning posted last Friday. The ISC also reported that several pages of security vendor CA's Web site had been infected. Roger Thompson, the chief research officer at Grisoft, pointed out that the hacked sites could be found via a simple Google search for the domain that hosts the malicious JavaScript. On Saturday, said Thompson, the number of sites that had fallen victim to the attack numbered more than 70,000. 'This was a pretty good mass hack,' said Thompson, in a post to his blog." By Sunday a second round of the same attack had infected over 90,000 servers.

Comments

more un-authorized programming

[Grampaw Willie]

this hack is just another example of tricking the victim into executing un-authorized code

the block has to be at the java/parser so that when java is envoked to start parsing a code segment for any reason the first thing it does is look for the signature for that program

NO SIGNATURE? NO EXECUTE.

the days of running anything on anybody's computer need to come to an abrupt halt here