A second Indian government Web site has been compromised for malware purposes, says Finjan, The provider of unified web security solutions for the enterprise market.
 
The web site has been hacked by cybercriminals, says report that the Government of India portal was hacked back in May 2009. This latest hack is interesting on two fronts. First the attack has happened despite the Indian government stepping up security on its hosting servers. And secondly, the cybercriminals have added a script into the site that adds an iFrame attack to the page.
 
The page then re-routes to a LuckySploit-infected server in Texas that fires off multiple attacks across the Internet. Early reports suggest that the site hack and re-route has infected several thousand Internet users. The bad news about this exploit is that the infected pages are only detected by 4 out of 41 anti-virus engines on the Virustotal.com code checking portal.
 
Finjan's malicious code research team has notified the Indian CERT operation about the problem, which we hope will be fixed shortly.
 
The infection teaches us that any site can be compromised and serve malicious code without the site owner knowledge. This is why Web protection utilizing real-time content inspection is needed for businesses to prevent such attacks and keep their valuable data away from hackers.

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