(((I really don't know which is worse: "US Consulate Hacked in St Petersburg," or "Us Consulate Accidentally Hacked in Saint Petersburg by Marauders Looking for Something More Profitable.")))
Link: U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg hacked - SC Magazine US.
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"Sophos' U.K.-based researcher Fraser Howard said Wednesday on the company's research blog that Mal/ObfJS-C attempts to load malicious content from two attack sites hosted in the United States. Howard said that Consulate General was likely not exclusively attacked.
“So, to answer the question of whether the U.S. Consulate General site was specifically targeted in this attack – my answer is no, probably not," said Howard. "The prevalence of other, much smaller sites compromised in exactly the same way, in just seven days worth of data, suggests that the hackers just happened to have caught a big fish as they trawled for vulnerable servers,” he said on the SophosLab blog. “It just goes to show that security is important on all machines hosting both small and large websites.”
