A follow up on the Indian embassy issue

It’s been a busy two weeks trying to put together the training material I’ll be using to teach Incident Response and Computer Forensics to some of my colleagues in other geographies across Europe, Asia and Australia, and that will kick-off in Leiden in approximately 10 days. Meanwhile, the latest news about the Indian embassy reported earlier on this blog, spread quickly on the Internet.

Many sites reported on the issue, from antivirus vendors to security professional’s blogs and online magazines. Whilst most of them just echoed what others said, some shed more light on it posting some interesting notes and only a few did an in-depth analysis worth of mention, the most relevant being:

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Embassy of India in Spain found serving remote malware through iFrame attack

Hacking an embassy’s website to use it as malware distribution point is not something new, neither is the use of the iframe injection attack, but it’s still surprising the number of infected sites out there.

Earlier this morning I was alerted to this problem by a colleague who was trying to access www (dot) embajadaindia (dot) com to sort out some paperwork related to my employer’s offices in India. When tried to load the site, the Desktop Antivirus displayed the following pop-up alert:

Sophos Alert - www (dot) embajadaindia (dot) com

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