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Over 6000 files of Cryptome.org are infected with Blackhole exploit kit


Cryptome website is infected with Blackhole exploit kit. Cryptome.org is a famous website hosted in US since 1996 , functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech ,cryptography, spying and survillance.

Cryptome officials come to know about the attack when one of their reader reported.

Hackers managed to inject the script using the following code :
<SCRIPT src="/0002/afg/afg.php"></SCRIPT>

According to the Cryptome notification, the hacker inject the afg.php file in existing folder called /0002/afg ,also created a new folder main under the same directory which contained 2,863 IP addresses ending with .log . 

Successfully cryptome replaced 6000 contaminated files with a clean files.  But they claimed that there may be some other infected files.
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