Online banking services of major banks in the US can potentially be compromised through third-party services. Banks are including JavaScript code from external sources controlled by someone else. This practice opens up the possibility of stealing online banking passwords, diverting payments or draining bank accounts.
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Malware Injecting Torrent Mirrors
While ISPs in the UK and other countries are blocking file sharing websites such as The Pirate Bay, movie-lovers have different alternatives to circumvent these restrictions. One popular way to overcome the filtering is using mirrors.
Torrent mirrors are essentially reverse proxies, which are forwarding HTTP traffic between the UK and the original sites hosted elsewhere. Data supposed be left intact and the only difference should be the address in the URL bar.
This experiment proves however that 99.7% of the tested BitTorrent mirrors are injecting additional JavaScript into the web browsing traffic. A great share of these scripts serve content with malicious intent such as malware and click-fraud.
Suit Up and Protect WordPress
In the final part of the series, I am going to show a few practical tips and tricks for protecting your WordPress blog. We have seen earlier how a simple XSS vulnerability can lead to the total compromise of the hosting environment. We not only managed to deploy a backdoor, dump all data from the databases and retrieve each file from […]