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May 17th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists
Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party exploit detection tools are also detecting internal pages as exploit hosting ones, in this particular case Mal/Badsrc-A. What is Mal/Badsrc-A? Mal/Badsrc-A is a malicious web page also known as HTML.XORER, that has been compromised to load a script from a malicious website. Redmond's site is part of yet another massive and naturally automated SQL injection attack, whose main malicious URL appears to be down when last checked. Who's behind it, and was Redmond's magazine targeted on purposes? Chinese hacktivists attempting to SQL inject as many sites as...
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