MySQL.com hacked again

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For the second time in a year, MySQL.com has been hacked and is serving malware.

Security firm Amorize found some highly obfuscated injected JavaScript on the website, noting that visitors would be hit by the BlackHole exploit kit.

“It exploits the visitor's browsing platform ... and upon successful exploitation, permanently installs a piece of malware into the visitor's machine, without the visitor's knowledge,” the company’s co-founder Wayne Huang said in a blog post.

“The visitor doesn't need to click or agree to anything - simply visiting MySQL.com with a vulnerable browsing platform will result in an infection.”

Huang said he was unsure who was behind the attack. Amorize was attempting to contact MySQL.com yesterday, but had not confirmed if the site had responded.

On the KrebsonSecurity blog, Brian Krebs claimed he had found evidence administrative access to MySQL.com was being sold in an “exclusive Russian hacker forum.” The seller went by the name of ‘sourcec0de.’

Worryingly for IT departments, using test site Virus Total, Huang showed only six out of 43 anti-virus engines could detect the malware being served by MySQL.com. When the company first blogged, only four were able to do so.

The video below shows how MySQL.com was serving malware:

MySQL.com was hacked in March 2011, ironically by an SQL injection attack.

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