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The US Postal Service has pulled down a site hosting malicious code that was earlier used in a sophisticated multi-stage attack featuring the Blackhole Exploit kit. The infected site - http://ribbs.usps.gov - which is involved in the delivery of USPS's business mail-focused barcode-based Intelligent Mail services - was …

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  1. Jess--

    site infected

    http://research.zscaler.com/2011/04/uspsgov-website-infected-with-blackhole.html

    avast reckons there is some sort of javascript infection on there and blocks the connection

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    It's in the quotes.

    That blog quotes the obfuscated javascript, so matches the signature in the avast database.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    USPS tag-line...

    "We deliver..." (malicious code)

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  4. dssf

    Hahaha

    When I first read this, my mind saw "Blackhole Exploited at US Postal Site"...I thought it was a gag story claiming that the USPS was tapping into a power source...

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      LHC

      I figured that quack in Hawaii was right and the LHC was killing us all...

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