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Malcode Found On Mexican .gov Site

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Posted 07 May 2007 - 09:27 AM

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Websense Security Labs has discovered malicious code hosted on a government body's official Web site. The victim is Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones, a division of Mexico's government (equivalent of the FCC in the United States)...an .scr file is downloaded. After execution, the .scr file drops a suspiciously named executable into the Windows startup directory for all users...
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