Nepalese government websites compromised to serve Zegost RAT

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Nepalese government websites compromised to serve Zegost RAT
Botnet	Zegost
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
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Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 08 aug2012
Editor/Conference	Websense
Link	http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2012/08/08/nepalese-government-websites-compromised-to-serve-zegost-backdoor.aspx community.websense.com (community.websense.com Archive copy)
Author	Gianluca Giuliani, Elad Sharf
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Abstract

“ The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that two Nepalese government websites, the National Information Technology Center (NITC) and the Office of the Prime Minister and Council Minister (nitc.gov.np and opmcm.gov.np respectively), have been compromised and injected with malicious code that tries to exploit the Java vulnerability CVE-2012-0507. The aim of this injection is to install, through successfully exploiting that Java weakness, a backdoor that is also dubbed "Zegost" on the systems of visitors to these websites.

Bibtex

 @misc{2012BFR1109,
   editor = {Websense},
   author = {Gianluca Giuliani, Elad Sharf},
   title = {Nepalese government websites compromised to serve Zegost RAT},
   date = {08},
   month = Aug,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2012/08/08/nepalese-government-websites-compromised-to-serve-zegost-backdoor.aspx community.websense.com}},
 }