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Saturday, June 16, 2007 was a quiet day, but all over the world of computer virus detection and research, people were hard at work, fighting what well may be the herald of a whole new era in malicious criminal behaviour.
A program called MPACK was involved, but only as the framework of the delivery system. The MPACK kit was used to corrupt web pages and web servers in such a way that they could be used to deliver a Trojan downloader to any unsuspecting visitor.
Just visiting such a corrupted site was enough to infect the user. And once infected, the users computer was pwned. Perhaps the oddest thing about this attack, which we called The Italian Job was that there was really nothing new about it. It used several off the shelf malware components, some of them months old.
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