The company patched a customer-support message forum Web site that had been silently installing a backdoor Trojan on visitors' PCs.
By Gregg Keizer TechWeb.com
Jun 2, 2006 02:35 PM
Circuit City Stores Inc. on Thursday patched a customer support message forum Web site that had been silently installing a backdoor Trojan on visitors' PCs for more than two weeks.
Sometime on or about May 17, hackers broke into a home theater message board on Circuit City's online site, said Bill Cimino, a spokesman for the Richmond, Va.-based electronics retailer. "We're trying to backtrack to when the break-in actually occurred," Cimino said Friday.
From then until Thursday, June 1, visitors to the forum who were running unpatched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer were directed to a Russian-based Web site that tried to install a Trojan horse which would give attackers full access to the compromised PC.