The websites of foreign embassies are often where people go to download visa applications and other documents They are also ripe openings for embedding malware. Criminal hackers have taken notice. In the case of the Bangladesh Embassy in Cairo, attackers appear to be using the website to mine cryptocurrency, according to research published Wednesday by SpiderLabs, the security team of Chicago-based company Trustwave. Almost the entire embassy website appears to be compromised, with nearly every attempt to access a URL ending in a request to save a malicious file, the researchers said. Only three of 69 antivirus engines detected the infected website as malicious. “This level of compromise usually indicates the attacker’s ability to not only upload their own data, but also change the web server’s configuration,” SpiderLabs’ Nikita Kazymirskyi wrote in a blog post. The hackers appear to have breached the website in October. In January, SpiderLabs noticed a Microsoft Word […]
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