MPack Hacker Tool Claims 10,000 Compromised Web Sites
June 25, 2007 Alex Woodie
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A Russian-developed hacker tool called MPack was being utilized last week in a Web attack that has compromised an estimated 10,000 Web sites, primarily in Italy but also in other parts of Europe, security researchers reported. As the largest such attack in recent memory, MPack shows how sophisticated hackers and malicious software developers are getting at compromising network security, and ups the ante in the ongoing battle against cyber crime. Late Friday (June 15), computer security researchers started tracking the Web site hacks and resulting spread of malware, which some have dubbed the “Italian Job” because most of the infected |