Blue Coat Protects Users from Latest Attack by Shnakule Malnet
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Blue Coat WebPulse collaborative defense has proactively protected its 75 million users from the latest attack launched by Shnakule, the largest malware network (malnet) on the Internet. Blue Coat Security Labs has been tracking the Shnakule infrastructure, which enabled WebPulse to dynamically identify the new threat. This same technique can proactively block future attacks from Shnakule and other malnets. In the attack, first reported by Armorize Technologies, MySQL.com, was hacked and serving malicious JavaScript that created an invisible iframe. The iframe enabled a drive-by download attack that was hosted on servers external to the MySQL.com site. The attack utilized not only sites that are known to be part of the Shnakule malnet but new exploit and payload servers as well. The attack host was one of many malicious sites on a server that WebPulse had already categorized and blocked as a malware host, proactively protecting users ...