[sdnog] ISC website hacked

[Ahmad Yassin]

Greetings all,
Cloudflare had some interesting analysis for the pre- and post holidays
hackers' activities, you can read more at
http://blog.cloudflare.com/hackers-love-the-holidays/

On Tue Dec 30 2014 at 10:27:46 PM Fahd Batayneh <fahd.batayneh at icann.org>
wrote:

> It seems to be a trend for the online world to go wild during the holidays
> seasons. Please read
> http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Why-hackers-thrive-during-holiday-season-5112534.php
> from earlier this year.
>
>
>
> Fahd
>
>
>
> P.S. I am enjoying the discussions that are taking place in the various
> threads on the sdNOG mailing list. Keep it up!
>
>
>
> *From:* sdnog-bounces at sdnog.sd [mailto:sdnog-bounces at sdnog.sd] *On Behalf
> Of *Samir S. Omer
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 30, 2014 7:29 AM
>
>
> *To:* sdnog at sdnog.sd
> *Subject:* [sdnog] ISC website hacked
>
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
>
>
> anyone who's recently visited the ISC.org website, please check your PC.
>
>
>
> "The website for the Internet Systems Consortium, which develops the BIND
> DNS and ISC DHCP tools, has been hacked.
>
> Anyone who recently browsed ISC.org is urged to check their PC for malware
> as miscreants booby-trapped the site to infect visitors. The website has
> been replaced by a placeholder page warning netizens of the attack.
>
> ISC.org served pages using WordPress, and either that CMS or one of its
> plugins or support files was exploited to compromise the web server, it
> seems.
>
> Miscreants had managed to exploit some part of the CMS to redirect
> visitors to a page serving the Angler Exploit Kit. This package attempts to
> infect Windows PCs using security holes in Internet Explorer, Flash and
> Silverlight."
>
>
>
> the source
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/26/isc_org_hacked
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Samir
>
>
>
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