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Websense® Security Labsâ„¢ ThreatSeekerâ„¢ Network has discovered that the BBS of Sougou has been compromised.

Sougou, a popular search engine in China (Alexa rank 2956), is part of Sohu.com Inc.

The Sougou BBS home page and other pages on the site have been injected with a malicious script. The script creates an IFrame that redirects users to an exploit site: a 5-day old domain at [snip]ow.info. The latter performs some checks before delivering the exploits, in order to subvert any analysis attempts.

At the time of writing this alert, the BBS of Sougou is still injected with the malicious script, but the exploit site is down. This could change at any moment.

This is the injected code in the home page and its contents: 

 

 

Here is the exploit page: 

 

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