IL Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Jan 2013 Hacking (Q13711)
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IL Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Jan 2013 Hacking
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January 2013
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SRAELI WEBSITE FOR INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM WATERHOLE ATTACK SERVING CVE-2012-4969 Websense Security Labs and the Websense ThreatSeeker Intelligence Cloud have detected that the government-related websites ict.org.il and herzliyaconference.org have been involved in a waterhole attack and are injected with malicious code that serves as an exploit for Internet Explorer vulnerability CVE-2012-4969. The first website describes itself as the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. Both websites seem to be connected and governed by a leading Israeli academic institution called the IDC. The malicious code found on the websites is identical and was identified as CVE-2012-4969 - an Internet Explorer vulnerability that was verified as a zero-day at the time and was found (English)
