Virus encyclopedia served up script-injection infection
Antivirus vendor Trend Micro confirmed Thursday, March 13, 2008 that “some portions” of its site had been hacked earlier this week, but hedged when asked if those pages had been serving up attack code to unsuspecting visitors.
“I can’t confirm or deny the details,” said Mike Sweeny, a spokesman for the Tokyo-based security company, on Thursday afternoon. “Some pages were compromised, but we took those pages down and took corrective action hours ago.” When pressed for more information, Sweeny would only say that the attack was “under analysis.”
The English-language edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, said Trend Micro’s site was hacked around 9:00 p.m. Sunday, Tokyo time (7:00 p.m. Eastern, on Saturday, in the U.S.).
“When users viewed any of the modified pages, they were reconnected to other sites without realizing it, and a type of virus was installed on their computer that causes them to download other viruses in a series,” said the Yomiuri Shimbun.
This is scary stuff to me because I used Trend Micro’s sysclean product in my day to day tech work and I’m on their site all the time!
-Wayne
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