“Take that malware”
It turns out that hackers managed to breach the US site for Sony Playstation and leave behind some very unwelcome easter eggs.
From the Register:
SQL injection vulnerabilities on the site were used by miscreants to load malicious code on pages showcasing the PlayStation games SingStar Pop and God of War, net security firm Sophos reports. The code promotes scareware to visitors, which falsely claims that their computers are infected with computer viruses to frighten them into purchasing software of little or no security utility.
Sophos warns that the same technique might easily be adapted to serve up computer Trojans or other forms of malware. Sophos informed Sony of the website vulnerabilities, which were purged by Thursday morning.
This is the latest iteration in a string of attacks that first surfaced (in mass media at least) in January.
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