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Title: How criminals make money from compromised websites
Post by: YoKenny on July 31, 2009, 01:32:04 AM

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How criminals make money from compromised websites
Posted by Maxim Weinstein

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a trend of websites being compromised because the webmaster’s computer had a Trojan that was stealing FTP credentials for the site. The folks at Finjan recently released a report detailing the operations of a criminal enterprise, Golden Cash, that uses this approach as an integral part of its operations. From the report (emphasis added):

How does Golden Cash operate?

1. A potential victim visits a legitimate compromised website.
2. The compromised website contains a malicious Iframe, causing the victim‟s browser to pull an exploit code from the attacker website that is armed with the exploit toolkit.

http://blog.stopbadware.org/2009/07/30/how-criminals-make-money-from-compromised-websites
 

Title: Re: How criminals make money from compromised websites
Post by: Conogo on July 31, 2009, 10:43:32 AM

Thanks for sharing.  :) It is a dangerous [virtual] world.  :-\