Hackers have hit the website of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government-in-exile established by the Dalai Lama in 1959 after he was forced out of Tibet, according to Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher Kurt Baumgartner.
They installed some code that redirects visitors from Chinese-language websites to a Java exploit that drops a backdoor into their PCs. The attack exploits an old Java vulnerability. Oracle issued a patch last year, which should have been implemented by CTA’s IT staff by now.
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Hackers Breach Dalai Lama's Government-in-Exile Website
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 14, 2013 12:05 PMHackers have hit the website of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government-in-exile established by the Dalai Lama in 1959 after he was forced out of Tibet, according to Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher Kurt Baumgartner.
They installed some code that redirects visitors from Chinese-language websites to a Java exploit that drops a backdoor into their PCs. The attack exploits an old Java vulnerability. Oracle issued a patch last year, which should have been implemented by CTA’s IT staff by now.