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The Web Hacking Incidents Database
Last update:17 February 2008
List of Incidents for a Classification
Please note that classifications are a new feature and not all entries in WHID are already classified, so when you get a certain number of entries for a classification, WHID might have more records matching that classification that we did not classify yet. We hope to complete the classification process soon.
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Attack Method, Country, Location, Origin, Outcome, Software, Vertical Select criteria for classification "Vertical":
Education, Entertainment, Finance, Government, Health, Information Services, Internet, Marketing, Media, Politics, Retail, Security & Law Enforcement, Service Providers, Sports, Technology
List of incidents for which Vertical is Finance
8 incidents listed
Reported: 04 February 2008Occurred: 04 February 2008
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Unknown
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
- Vertical: Finance
A computer hacker broke into the database of D.A. Davidson, a local Montana financial services firm and stole their entire customers' database: 226,000 records including names and social security numbers. Attack method is not known, but it seems very much like a web hack.
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Reported: 28 January 2008Occurred: 21 January 2008
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Known Vulnerability
- Attack Method: Drive by Pharming
- Attack Method: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Country: Mexico
- Location: Client
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
- Outcome: Monetary Loss
- Software: DSL Router
- Vertical: Finance
Symantec reported an active exploit of CSRF against residential ADSL routers in Mexico (WHID 2008-05). An e-mail with a malicious IMG tag was sent to victims. By accessing the image in the mail, the user initiated a router command to changethe DNS entry of a leading Mexican bank, making any subsequent access by a user to the bank go through the attacker's server.
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Reported: 09 January 2008Occurred: 08 January 2008
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Country: Italy
- Outcome: Phishing
- Vertical: Finance
It has been a while since a phishing scam using XSS vulnerability found its way to the Web Hacking Incidents database (SunTrust, WHID 2004-11). The current incident is a good example of what does and does not get into our database: XSS vulnerabilities in public web sites are discovered daily and reported in sites such as XSSed, however most of these vulnerabilities are not included in WHID for lack of public interest. The current incident is different since the vulnerability is known to be exploited by attackers, moving it from the realm of technical interest to the realm of a real problem.
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Reported: 01 January 2008Occurred: 29 January 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Credential/Session Prediction
- Country: Brazil
- Outcome: Disclosure Only
- Vertical: Finance
IDG now reports a bug in the internet banking application of Unibanco, a Brazilian Bank. The vulnerability allowed logged users to view transaction receipts of other unrelated users by changing the "receipt ID" on the form or URL.
Reported by Alexandre Sieira
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Reported: 12 October 2007Occurred: 10 October 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: SQL Injection
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
- Vertical: Finance
3,000 records were exposed and 20 actually stolen at Commerce Bank, a small bank in Central USA. While the vulnerability exploited is not clear, SQL injection was mentioned. Therefore the record is uncertain and based on further information, it might be withdrawn.
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Reported: 03 September 2007Occurred: 02 September 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Unknown
- Country: India
- Outcome: Planting of Malware
- Vertical: Finance
This very serious hacking incident provides insight into a lot
of the failures information security in general and web application
security particularly beyond the simple fact that the web site of the
largest state owned bank in India was invisibly defaced with Trojan
inflicting code.
Firstly, the entire discussion in the references is about the
Trojan payload, with no word about the vulnerability that led to the
defacement. Actually a reviewer on the SiteAdvisor report gives the
green mark to the web site after the Trojan is removed, without
requiring any information about the actual problem.
Secondly, most trust systems, including SiteAdvisor,
completely fail to detect the breach. Which makes me think about those
trust models: they check that the site was not breached, while they
should check that the site is not vulnerable. I guess the reason is
that their primary goal is to detect intentionally malicious sites and
not breaches is normative sites, but others use them to assess the
level of security of the later.
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Reported: 01 July 2007Occurred: 17 May 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Country: Germany
- Outcome: Disclosure Only
- Vertical: Finance
I seldom add disclosures anymore to WHID, even less XSS disclosures, but since this time they were discovered in banking sites, I thought it was worth it. After all, too many times people think that application vulnerabilities are found only at less "serious" or less "important" web sites where no real damage can occur.
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Reported: Occurred: 28 September 2004
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Phishing
- Vertical: Finance
Phishing based on XSS
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