Website Hacked Oklahoma Tax, spreading malware

According to researchers at AVG Technologies (an Internet security company), the pirates hijacked Oklahoma Tax official website. More information about the attack showed that when people visited the Oklahoma Tax Commission’s website, I found a message asking them to submit to an Adobe license agreement before downloading the software. Although no abnormalities were evident, security researchers said they had malicious code on the application, which can infect computers if users click on “accept” words of the contract. The malware, keyloggers loaded possibly to systems that can filching sensitive information such as data cards, personal identification and other personal information from visitors who register with the contaminated site. On closer examination it is clear that malware estguard origin. com hosted in the Netherlands. This site, in turn connected to an attack site. Using the rotator, hackers, apparently decided the fate of the victim, said security researchers AVG. Commenting on the hack, Roger Thompson, chief researcher AVG, said he expected the site administrators Oklahoma Tax quickly remove the HTML code kidnapped, as reported by Information Security January 28, 2010. In addition, Thompson said the nature of the attack and its aftermath occurred at the site of many users, but it is unfortunate that it occurred at a location tax rate to the current season 2010th AVG said that online criminals exploit the current trend of people visiting Web sites to file taxes taxes. Thus, Thompson was a user does not access the site Oklahoma tax until it was swept by malware and transferred to a normal function, according to ChannelWeb January 28, 2010. Moreover, security experts suggested that better computer users can thwart these types of malicious attacks by maintaining properly patched software and update antivirus software. They were able to load an application behavior analysis, all suspicious actions are aborted in the system. Finally, users themselves to exercise caution when surfing sites treasures. They had to remember that the distributors of malicious code and hackers often use sites collect taxes conclusive evidence without knowing web surfers.