- Jan 8, 2011
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Nearly 100 Thai Government websites were hacked and used to serve malware last month. More than 500 distinct attacks were launched from these websites, representing about 85% of all government-hosted malware in the world.
Seven of the hacked sites belong to Thai police forces, such as the Narathiwat Provincial Police website at [Url redacted for safety], where hackers have appended a large chunk of malicious VBScript to the page shown below. This script attempts to write malware from a hexadecimal string to a file named svchost.exe on the local file system, and then tries to automatically run the malware contained within the freshly planted executable file.
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