According to a security company, the MySQL website, which caters to some highly trafficked websites with its open source cache, was under hackers' control who were delivering malicious programs onto visiting computers running the Windows operating system prior to their cleansing. Cnet News published this in news on September 26, 2011.
The security company Sucuri Security said that a Web-based malicious program named mwjs159 contaminated MySQL.com. This malware frequently disseminated whilst attackers used hijacked computers for gaining admission into confidential FTP clients. The hack resulted in the website's visitors getting diverted onto another website, which planted malware onto their PCs utilizing a BlackHole attack toolkit created code, separate investigators belonging to Armorize stated.
These investigators warned that the code exploited the web-browser, Adobe's PDF, the Adobe Flash browser plug-ins, Java etc., and once properly exploited, it silently loaded malware for good onto the visitor's computer. The infection required nothing more than the visitor to access mysql.com inside the flawed component of any browsing platform, they added. The Register published this in news on September 26, 2011.
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