WHID 2008-35: Business Week site hit by malware

Attack Information
WHID ID: 
2008-35
Date Occured: 
15 Sep 2008
Attack Method: 
Outcome Information
Outcome: 
Target Information
Attacked Entity Field: 
Information Services
Attacked Entity Geography: 
USA

Business Week is the latest victim of Asprox, a botnet using SQL injection attacks to plant malware. Internet News reports that Sophos has discovered malwares on a large number of pages on the magazine’s web site. A Google safe browsing report, which checks how many pages on a web site, if any, are infected with malware picked at 214 out of 2,157 pages on the site, just shy of 10%.