Published on December 13th, 2015 📆 | 3437 Views ⚑
0Attacker Embeds Malware in The Guardian’s Cybercrime Article
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An article published by The Guardian in 2011 on the topic Cybercrime: is it out of control? received a nasty response from a hacker who inserted a malicious URL inside one of the syndicated link embedments in the article.
The article published by the website was headlined “Cybercrime: Is it out of Control
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This was found by researchers (J.Gomez, Kenneth Hsu and Kenneth Johnson) from a security firm “FireEye
“WHEN THE SYNDICATION LINK IS LOADED IN THE BACKGROUND, READERS ARE EVENTUALLY REDIRECTED TO ANGLER’S LANDING PAGE VIA INJECTED HTML THAT CRAFTS THE REQUEST TO THE ANGLER LANDING PAGE”
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