Circuit City Warns of Online Forum Attack

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via C|Net News (and SAN ISC).

[snip]

Part of the Circuit City Web site was hacked and used in an attempt to install malicious code on PCs of unknowing 
visitors, the electronics retailer said Thursday.

Cybercrooks were able to break in and modify a home theater message board on Circuit City's Web site, said Bill Cimino, 
a spokesman for Circuit City of Richmond, Va. Over an approximately two-week period, visitors to the board were 
subsequently sent to a site in Russia that attempted to install a "backdoor" on their PCs that gives the attackers 
remote access, he said

Circuit City was made aware of the attack on Thursday by the SANS Internet Storm Center, Cimino said. The company took 
down the message board, operated by a third party, and is in the process of notifying the 1,000 or so registered users 
of the online forum, he said.

[snip]

C|Net:
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6079203.html

SANS ISC:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1375

- ferg


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