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Jonathan Hochman on Internet Evolution: Nasty Malware Attack Targets Web Developers

“When a developer visits an infected site, the page installs a virus on their machine that silently copies the passwords stored in FileZilla, CuteFTP, and possibly other File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client software, and sends them to a central server. The server then runs a bot to access all sites for which credentials have been stolen and installs an iframe injection attack on many pages, further spreading the infection. “

20 August 2009
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