Website of Industrial Software Firm Abused for Reconnaissance Mission

  • 2 September 2014
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By Eduard Kovacs on September 02, 2014
 
Cybercriminals have compromised the website of an industrial company to conduct a watering hole attack with the goal to collect information on the site's visitors, according to a report.
Researchers at AlienVault say they spotted an interesting framework used by the attackers for reconnaissance. The information collected through the framework, which has been dubbed by the attackers "Scanbox," can be highly useful for future attacks, they said.
The industrial company involved in the attack has not been named, but the security firm revealed that the affected website is related to software used for simulation and system engineering in various industries, including manufacturing, aerospace and automotive.
Once it's placed on a website, Scanbox, which is a JavaScript file, configures its command and control (C&C) server and starts collecting information on the site's visitors. The data harvested in the first phase includes referer, user-agent, location, cookies, domain, screen dimensions, operating system and language. The data is encoded, encrypted and sent back to the C&C server. 
 
SecurityWeek/ full article here/ http://www.securityweek.com/website-industrial-software-firm-abused-reconnaissance-mission


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