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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.
Select classification:
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 Internet
6 incidents listed
Reported: 19 December 2007Occurred: 19 December 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Worm
- Vertical: Internet
A vulnerability in the social networking site Orkut that allowed users to inject HTML and JavaScript into their profiles set the stage for a persistent XSS worm that appears to have affected more than 650,000 Orkut users.
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Reported: 19 December 2007Occurred: 28 June 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Insufficient Anti-automation
- Country: USA
- Country: Canada
- Vertical: Internet
Use of robots and automated software against a web site, as long as it is not done in order to break into the site, falls into a grey area. While hard to classify as an unlawful act, it is usually harmful to the site owner and possibly to the site users. Apart from using valuable resources, such an automated access may breach the site's usage license of public information and might also indicate unlawful activity such as using a botnet. Many times it is hard to know if such a blast of requests is a denial of service attack, brute force password cracking or just a search engine crawler. Going forward we are going to add such incidents to WHID if there is a reason to believe that they are not friendly, even if the actual goal of the attack cannot be easily classified. The Facebook case at hand is a perfect example: while the details are not clear, the fact that Facebook filed a law suit implies that there is fire behind the smoke.
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Reported: 21 November 2007Occurred: 20 November 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Unknown
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Planting of Malware
- Vertical: Internet
A Crimeware iframe tag on a site is not news anymore. On Monster.com it is.
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Reported: 07 November 2007Occurred: 02 November 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Redirection
- Country: Global
- Outcome: Phishing
- Vertical: Internet
While most WHID entries are about web
site breaches, sometimes vulnerability in a web application is used indirectly. Redirection functions in web applications are commonly used by spammers and phishers. It allows them
to include a honest looking URL in their e-mail, this way bypassing
spam filters and observant users.
Symantec response team found actively
used alternative in the best known page on the internet: Google primary search page. By using the Google famous "I feel lucky" feature, the spammer can automatically lead the victim to
the first result of a search. All the spammer is left with is finding a
query for which his site would pop up first on Google.
This method has another advantage over a redirection page,
as the final target is specified by a search string and not by a URL,
bypassing smarter filters that know, or learn, that a URL as a parameter of a URL is most probably redirection.
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Reported: 12 June 2007Occurred: 30 May 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Unintentional Information Disclosure
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
- Vertical: Internet
Google left some files at the wrong place at the wrong time. These files includes, surprisingly, database connection strings, including a user name and a password. Hardly news, but this time it is Google.
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Reported: 14 May 2007Occurred: 10 May 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: SQL Injection
- Country: Sweden
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
- Vertical: Internet
Private Bay is a BitTorrent information exchange blog site. Hackers used an SQL Injection vulnerability in the web site to steal 1.6 million users and passwords of the site. At least the passwords where hashed, which means that the hacker would need a cracking software and only the lame passwords will be found.
This incident highlights the Web authentication problem. Just think how many of those users use the same username and password in many other sites.
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