On 07/12/2012 10:10 AM, Vu Le wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an urgent matter I want to bring to your attention. If you can
> look into this and confirm, it would be great.
>
> Yesterday, one of our employees downloaded the Windows version from
> Gimpshop.com. Our IT team alerted us to a trojan horse infection. See
> below:
>
> Classification:
>
>       
>
> Trojan Horse Infection
>
> Description:
>
>       
>
> This incident is a real-time notification for a malware infected host
> detected on your monitored network. This infection was identified by
> analyzing your monitored security device logs for known patterns
> fitting a profile for Trojan horse or backdoor activity.
>
> A Trojan horse is a type of malware characterized by its ability to
> masquerade as a legitimate application. Many Trojan horses have
> backdoor communications capabilities. Backdoors allow remote attackers
> to gather information from or otherwise access the infected  host. 
>
> A malware infected host residing on your protected network poses a
> risk to your organization. Many types of malware are multi-functional
> and have network propagation, remote control, data theft and various
> other capabilities.
>
> Analyst assessment:
>
>       
>
> The host identified as the source IP address appears to be infected
> with Trojan LilyJade. The SOC recommends triaging this host for
> malware infection. 
>
>
>
> Can you confirm that this website is serving up malicious content? It
> seems they are not affiliated with Gimp.org, but are willfully
> confusing consumers? If so, can you guys get this site shut down and
> report to search engines like Google to block them, their domain
> registrar, and to major security providers? It may be a good idea
> notify all of the journalists who have written articles that link to
> this site as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Vu
>

I'm not on the Gimp development team but a Securi scan of the
gimpshop.com site did reveal the site HAS been blacklisted by McAfee's
SiteAdvisor.

Peace...

Tom
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