Antihacking firm hacked !!!!! VERY FUNNY... and troublesome at the

[juanarias]

Antivirus software vendor AvSoft Technologies' website hacked to
install virus on visitors computers

http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/On...d-to-install-virus-on-visitors-computers.html

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "juanarias" <[email protected]>

| Antivirus software vendor AvSoft Technologies' website hacked to
| install virus on visitors computers
|
| http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/On...d-to-install-virus-on-visitors-computers.html

LOL -- Never heard of AvSoft!

 

[Michael Cecil]

From: "juanarias" <[email protected]>

| Antivirus software vendor AvSoft Technologies' website hacked to
| install virus on visitors computers
|
| http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/On...d-to-install-virus-on-visitors-computers.html

LOL -- Never heard of AvSoft!

I figured this report was some kind of backhanded way of gaining
advertising, etc.
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[David H. Lipman]

From: "Michael Cecil" <[email protected]>


|
| I figured this report was some kind of backhanded way of gaining
| advertising, etc.

Nope. Research shows that they were indeed hacked via a SQL Injection or PHP vulnerability.
Visitors can get infected with a Virut virus through an IFrame exploit.

It seems the exploitations used in the malicious web site referenced in the IFrame are all
well known.