Darkleech Says Hello (FireEye Serves Malware)

2013-09-14

Darien Kindlund

http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/cyber-exploits/2013/09/darkleech-says-hello.html



There's never a dull day at FireEye - even on the weekends. At approximately 7:29 AM PDT today, we were notified by several security researchers that a fireeye[.]com/careers HR link was inadvertently serving up a drive-by download exploit. Our internal security, IT operations team, and third-party partners quickly researched and discovered that the malicious code was not hosted directly on any FireEye web infrastructure, but rather, it was hosted on a third-party advertiser (aka 'malvertisement' that was linked via one of our third-party web services. The team then responded and immediately removed links to the malicious code in conjunction with our partners in order to protect our website users. More information on this third-party compromise (of video.js) can be found here.

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