Cyber Crooks Hijack Activities of Large Web-Hosting Firm

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Brian Krebs:

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Organized crime groups have modified a significant share of the Web sites
operated by one of the Internet's largest Web hosting companies to launch
cyber attacks against visitors, Security Fix has learned.

Last month, Phoenix-based IPOWER Inc. was featured prominently in an
unflattering report by StopBadware.org, a joint effort by Google, Harvard
Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University's
Internet Institute. StopBadware has identified more than 90,000 sites that
attempt to install malicious software on visitors' computers via Internet
browser security holes or programming tricks. When a user tries to click on
one of these sites after they appear as Google search results, Google posts
a warning page stating that the site has been spotted trying to attack
previous visitors.

John Palfrey, a professor of Internet law at Harvard, said the report
showed that about 90 percent of the sites flagged as serving "badware"
appeared to be otherwise legitimate sites that had been hijacked by
criminals.

StopBadware found that about 10 percent of the sites in its database were
operated by IPOWER. Security Fix found that the problem at IPOWER may be
far worse than StopBadware indicated.

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More:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/05/cyber_crooks_hijack_acti
vities_1.html

- - ferg

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