'Ukraine' attacks US Treasury dollar printing websites
The US Treasury Department has taken offline four public Web sites for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing after the discovery on 3 May of malicious code, apparently linked to the Ukraine, on a parent site
The bureau began using a third-party cloud service provider to host the sites last year and said in a statement: "The hosting company used by BEP had an intrusion and as a result of that intrusion, numerous websites (BEP and non-BEP) were affected. The Treasury Government Security Operations Center was alerted to the problem and notified the bureau, which responded by taking the sites offline."
The infections first were reported by Roger Thompson, chief research officer for AVG Technologies, who discovered malicious code injected into the affected page and said the code appeared to be linked with two attack servers in Ukraine.
