Are AnonGhostTeam hacktivists using malware to infect end users?

  • 29 November 2014
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by Pierluigi Paganini on November 29th, 2014
 

Experts at Zscaler security firm discovered several websites defaced by AnonGhostTeam hacktivists leading to Dokta Chef Exploit Kit and CVE-2014-6332

Many security experts tend to ridicule the threat of hacktivist groups, in many professionals consider the groups that express political dissent through cyber attacks as a harmless threat. Now cyber experts are warning of a new hacktivist campaign managed by the AnonGhostTeam collective that is spreading a malware that allow attackers to gain remote code execution on the infected victims, as explained by Chris Mannon, security expert at Zscaler firm, in a blog post.
 
 
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The landing page includes an obfuscated JavaScript code that redirect visitors to a Dokta Chef Exploit Kit (EK) hosting site.
 
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