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Nov22
Threat Thursday: Monster.com Hacked Again!
The Register reported that the Monster Company Boulevard portion of the popular job search site, Monster.com, has been hacked for the 2nd time since August.  According to the report; "Exploit Prevention Labs' Roger Thompson, discovered the site had been subject to an iFrame attack that was redirecting visitors to servers that hosted exploits from Neosploit, a nasty attack toolkit that competes with better-known packages such as MPack and Icepack.  Thompson detected the attack through data anonymously submitted through LinkScanner, an Exploit Prevention Labs' product that warns web users when they reach dangerous online destinations.monster.jpg

 

The iFrame attack marred employment listings offered by some of the world's biggest companies, including Best Buy, Toyota Financial and Eddie Bauer, Thompson said.  People who visited those listings were redirected to a server that hosted the exploits.  The malicious javascript was encrypted, making it hard to know exactly how it behaved."

 

The major data breach in August involved a Trojan horse stealing more than 1.6 million records from the job search site's database.  I hope Monster is keeping pace with the hackers and am glad Exploit Prevention Labs (XPL) is keeping a wide eye too.  I did come across XPL's Threat Center which provides some good information, including Roger Thompson's blog; which makes for some interesting, if a little frightening, reading.

 


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