Government sites of Hungary and Pakistan compromised
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
A security firm has found malicious code embedded onto two official government websites that infects visitors to the site and leads them to an Adobe Reader PDF exploit.
The sites of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Republic of Hungary and in Pakistan were found to be compromised today by Websense's Security Labs. The malicious code was found on the main page of both government websites and led unsuspecting visitors to the Adobe Reader PDF exploit CVE-2007-5659.
The exploit was first reported by Adobe in May of last year and said the vulnerabilities could allow a cybercriminal to take control of an affected system, according to a company advisory.
As of yet, there is no news how many potential users may have been infected with the malicious code from the government website.
The site of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan gives visitors information about the Azerbaijan nation as well as the development of bilateral relations between various countries.
SMBs may see this as an opportunity to update their web filtering programs in an effort to improve network security.
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