Comments on: Hacked Embassy Websites Delivering Malware

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:06:57 +0000

@J. Lion
I dont think countries like the US would be able to pass legislature to pass a law like this. Patriot Act was iffy but this is going to far.

By: J. Lion

J. Lion — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:07:45 +0000

it could be the governments joint venture to install global Big Brother network

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:53:02 +0000

Of all sites it seems like embassy and other government sites should be more secure. I have seen on a couple of black hat forums hackers getting into government sites and stealing the vital information.

It would be pretty funny if these scripts were part of the governments attempt to remove hacking software from the UK.

By: mumble

mumble — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:27:20 +0000

@goodpeople
This reminds me of the “I Love You” sympathy virus, which asks Unix users to send itself to all their address book entries and delete half a dozen random Jpegs.

As far as the embassy is concerned, this is a Kevin Mitnick… There’s no patch for human stupidity – neither that of the embassy nor that of the users. It’s unfortunate, but people only learn the hard way.

By: goodpeople

goodpeople — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:41:11 +0000

Another perfect example of how we, the Dutch, manage to keep life simple. We simply ask the visitors of our websites to install the malware we are spreading.

Makes me think of that Belgian “ik houd van u” computervirus. The instructions were simple:

1. send these instructions to everyone in your address book.
2. type “echo y | format c: /u” from the command prompt
3. say the words “ik houd van u” aloud.

(american readers might want to substitute Belgian for Polish)

By: Nobody_Holme

Nobody_Holme — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:28:58 +0000

wait… darknet, have you sneakily turned us all into botnet drones? *le gasp*
anywho… yeah. more evidence that theres people out there getting smarter with their attack vectors.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:27:21 +0000

.. Earlier this week, the site for the Netherlands Embassy in Russia was caught serving a script that tried to dupe people into installing software that made their machines part of a botnet…

blush, I was expecting the Embassy to spent more time and funds on their website safety, especially since they route you to their website for info and documents on visa application. You feel rather stupid knowing that the Dutch community money spent, boils down to an ‘out of the box’ CMS install riddled with holes.