DrewWilson
October 5th, 2008, 03:42 PM
An Israeli researcher has uncovered a criminal server containing the FTP account credentials for nearly 100,000 legitimate websites across 86 countries, including the U.S. Postal Service and several universities here.
Ian Amit, director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems, told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday that while researching the Neosploit crimeware tookit, he came across a massive deposit of website credentials.
"It opened up Pandora's Box in terms of realizing how criminals work and what data they were processing," he said.
The data – believed to belong to three criminal groups – is likely being used to allow criminals to compromise legitimate websites with malware developed by the Neosploit kit.
More... (http://www.scmagazineus.com/Researcher-finds-server-with-stolen-FTP-credentials/article/118756/)
Ian Amit, director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems, told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday that while researching the Neosploit crimeware tookit, he came across a massive deposit of website credentials.
"It opened up Pandora's Box in terms of realizing how criminals work and what data they were processing," he said.
The data – believed to belong to three criminal groups – is likely being used to allow criminals to compromise legitimate websites with malware developed by the Neosploit kit.
More... (http://www.scmagazineus.com/Researcher-finds-server-with-stolen-FTP-credentials/article/118756/)