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Article: French Embassy Web site for Libya said to be serving up malware; Compromised site identified by McAfee researcher.(website overview )(Website overview)
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- Network World
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- December 13, 2007
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Byline: Ellen Messmer
The French Embassy Web site for Libya has been compromised and is serving up malware to visitors, according to McAfee.
McAfee researcher Francois Paget discovered Thursday and the company says it has reported its findings to the French government.
The site has been attacked using an iFrame exploit that inserts an invisible frame in the page in order to re-direct some
Web browser connections to another location, which serves up a "downloader," code that attempts to reside on the victim machine.
If the downloader is successful, the attacker can then remotely attempt to download other malware, "typically a ...