PHP.net compromised and used to attack visitors

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102513-phpnet-compromised-and-used-to-275241.html

By Lucian Constantin
IDG News Service
October 24, 2013

Visitors to the official website for the PHP programming language over the 
past couple of days might have had their computers infected with malware.

Hackers managed to inject malicious JavaScript code into a file on the 
php.net site called userprefs.js. The code made requests to a third-party 
website that scanned visitors' browsers for vulnerable plug-ins and 
executed exploits that, if successful, installed a piece of malware, said 
Daniel Peck, a research scientist at Barracuda Networks.

One of Barracuda's research tools detected and captured attack traffic 
from php.net late Tuesday evening, according to Peck.

The exploits served during the attack came in the form of malicious SWF 
files, so they most likely targeted vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. 
However, Barracuda's researchers are still conducting their analysis and 
haven't identified yet exactly which vulnerabilities were targeted, Peck 
said.

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