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Last week a hack on MSN’s South Korean portal left users of the MMORPG Lineage vulnerable to password stealing malware. The game has around 4 million users worldwide, but the number of users that have been attacked by the hack is unknown.
The South Korean portal of MSN is now back online after removing the malware that took up residency on the news pages of the site. Microsoft blames the firm that run the site, claiming they failed to apply security patches that would have discouraged the attack. The problem became apparent during a security scan on Sunday May 29th and Microsoft patched the flaw after the Bank Holiday weekend, leaving several days of exposure for the hack to take place.
Users of the Korean MSN portal were attacked simply by visiting the site and had no idea they had been infected by the Trojan named Lineage.dll.
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