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Trend Micro Toasted By Hack Attack
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-03-14
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Among the many sites impacted by a massive outbreak of code injection attacks, security vendor Trend Micro suffered an embarrassing breach itself.
Not real good news for Trend Micro, but the company confirmed in an InfoWorld report.
"A portion of our site - some pages were attacked," a Trend Micro spokesman said in the report. "We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night - and took corrective action."
News of the widespread attacks became public when security vendor McAfee blogged about them. Over 10,000 pages suffered a compromise by code injection.
The numbers soon proved higher than reported, in a followup post, McAfee said the attack has been running for over a week, affecting over 200,000 pages.
McAfee said most of the infected sites were running phpBB, a popular open source bulletin board package. As noted previously, one of the malware packages delivered by the attack looks for online gaming passwords, as criminals attempt to steal virtual possessions and sell them for real money.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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