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How criminals make money from compromised websitesPosted 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.
