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Hacked government, college sites push malware via fake hacking tools

A large scale hacking campaign is targeting governments and university websites to host articles on hacking social network accounts that lead to malware and scams. The attack is similar to our report last month on how government sites were being abused to redirect users to adult sites. The threat actors have successfully been able to perform blackhat SEO so that these ‘hacking tools’ are being promoted as the first search result in generic keyword searches in Google. Some of the sites targeted in this campaign belong to government sites for San Diego, Colorado, Minnesota, as well as UNESCO, the National Institutes of Health (nih.gov), Rutgers, University of Washington, Arizona State.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacked-government-college-sites-push-malware-via-fake-hacking-tools/

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