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Playstation Official Website Hacked |
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Written by Array
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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IT security firm Sophos reported that the official Playstation website has been compromised by hackers.
According
to Sophos, the hackers managed to inject fake ads that tried to scare
the website readers into buying an equally fake antivirus after
claiming to have detected viruses on their PCs.
"Visiting
the affected PlayStation site runs a script that pretends to do an
online security scan of your computer, and presents a bogus warning
message that your PC is infected with a variety of different pieces of
malware. Users frightened by the scareware 'warnings' might rush to
spend money on useless software."
"The fact that the
Sony PlayStation site has been attacked in this way suggests that
someone with malicious intent could place other harmful malware there -
a worrying thought when you consider the number of consumers interested
in video gaming."
SophosLabs has contacted Sony and at the time of writing the website is still infected.
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