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Kaspersky download site hacked, redirected users to fake AV
Kaspersky eventually confirmed an attack had hit the site on Sunday, exploiting a vulnerability in a third party app used for the website's administration. The company claimed the redirection to the fake antivirus only lasted three and a half hours, and 10 minutes after the company was notified, the affected server was taken offline.
"Currently the server is secure and fully back online, and Kaspersky products are available for download," Kaspersky told IT PRO. "Kaspersky Lab also wants to confirm that no individual's details were compromised from the company's web servers during this attack. Kaspersky Lab takes any attempt to compromise its security seriously. Our researchers are currently working on identifying any possible consequences of the attack for affected users, and are available to provide help to remove the fake antivirus software."
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User Comments (18)
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treeski
on October 20, 2010 1:57 PM |
That's... kind of funny... but mostly just messed up. A security firm should be the last to get successfully hacked |
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Kibaruk
on October 20, 2010 2:00 PM |
Third party software or not, still the bad juju for them. |
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HaMsTeYr
on October 20, 2010 2:03 PM |
Wow. I'm using Kaspersky PURE atm... thats going to be a hit on their rep for consumers everywhere. |
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Guest
on October 20, 2010 2:04 PM |
Maybe Kaspersky did it to themselves and then provide the solution ~sarcastic comment |
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lawfer
on October 20, 2010 2:10 PM |
Lol, life doesn't get any more ironic than this. |
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TomSEA
on October 20, 2010 2:50 PM |
Oops - that's pretty embarrassing for them. Wonder who they ticked off? |
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NeoFlux
on October 20, 2010 2:54 PM |
Worst thing is not that they got hacked. Worst thing is that they deny it. |
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Guest
on October 20, 2010 2:56 PM |
They should have used Avira to protect their site. :P |
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license27kill
on October 20, 2010 2:56 PM |
it's funny NOD32 has to bring this up.. lol.. lmao |
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PanicX
on October 20, 2010 3:16 PM |
The value of intrusion detection for a security firm should now be obvious to them. Waiting to have a compromised server reported to them by end users is really not the best approach. |
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JMMD
on October 20, 2010 4:22 PM |
Happens to many, many sites and there are tons more than are vulnerable. People really need to start taking this stuff seriously. |
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Guest
on October 20, 2010 4:48 PM |
I prefer my malware shaken not stirred. From Russia with love. Udachi. |
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Guest
on October 20, 2010 9:10 PM |
Kaspersky challenge hackers with their software which is obvious why they are targeted by them. Just because other sites dont get hacked, like NOD32 or Avira - it doesn't mean they have better security. I'm sure they will learn from this attack and fix the hole. No one can guarantee you 100% hacker proof since hacking is evolving everyday. |
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Guest
on October 21, 2010 4:59 AM |
**** Kaspersky, I am shifting to AVG free antivirus. I spend 10minutes every month to find a working KEY for KAS, and they can't even protect themselves, what will they protect me. AVG here i come |
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Guest
on October 21, 2010 7:01 AM |
Are you sure it wasn't on Monday? That's the day my Malwarebytes software kept picking up attempts to connect to bogus addresses and yes, it kept happening for 3 or 4 hours. Malwarebytes is almost always totally inactive so I was wondering what was going on. |
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Ahmed90
on October 21, 2010 7:13 AM |
web site hacking have nothing to do with how strong there AV its a totally different system web server and web pages and applications not windows viruses and malwares even Microsoft got attacked sometimes and got a viruses waves attacked them |
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Benny26
on October 21, 2010 7:23 AM |
lol.. Gotta love ironey. |
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Guest
on October 21, 2010 2:25 PM |
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-tdss-t they pissed off the guys that created this ^ virus. |
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