Security Firm Discovers Secret Plan To Hack Numerous Websites and Forums (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: According to Softpedia, "Security researchers from SurfWatch Labs have shut down a secret plan to hack and infect hundreds or possibly thousands of forums and websites hosted on the infrastructure of Invision Power Services, makers of the IP.Board forum platform." The man behind this plan was a hacker known as AlphaLeon, maker of the Thanatos malware-as-a-service platform. AlphaLeon hacked IP.Board's customer hosting platform, and was planning to place an exploit kit that would infect the visitors to these websites with his Thanatos trojan, in order to grow his botnet. Some of the companies using IP.Board-hosted forums include Evernote, the NHL, the Warner Music Group, and Bethesda Softworks (Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom games).

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[rmdingler]

I cannot tell if this is parody or... "Shut down a secret plan" ....no wait, I know which one it is.

LOL Invision Power.

[Khyber]

Their entire suite of software is shit and vulnerable. IPBoard is a complete piece of utter garbage where features that forums should have by default are pay-for plugins.