Heads Up: LizaMoon
I'm not one to get over excited about cyber attack warnings, because many are just beat ups by companies flogging "anti-malware" software. But the ‘LizaMoon’ cyber attack, dubbed "the most successful SQL injection attack ever seen" by experts, seems a little extraordinary.
Hundreds of thousands of websites have supposedly been compromised by a massive cyber attack dubbed LizaMoon. The criminals behind the scheme inserted an external link onto various legitimate websites using an SQL injection attack. The erroneous link redirects its victims to the criminals' webpage, which installs a piece of Rogue AV software called ‘Windows Stability Center’. The software warns users that their computer is infected with non-existent viruses, before offering a program to fix the problem - for a fee of up to US$79.90.
I mention this because the CCA website is, as most are these days, dependent on SQL (Structured Query Language, the language of database management). So be careful out there. Or, do as I do, get rid of Windows and join us brave folks on Linux
- It's free and we simply don't have to worry too much about this sort of stuff.
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