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55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malware cocktail
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Tue Aug 25 09:46:22 2009
55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malware cocktail
By Ryan Naraine
August 24th, 2009
Security researchers are raising an alarm for a potent malware cocktail
-- backdoor Trojans and password stealers -- being pushed to Windows
users from about 55,000 hacked Web sites.
According to Mary Landesman, a researcher in ScanSafe’s security threat
alert team, the cybercriminals have embedded a malicious iFrame into
tens of thousands of Websites to fire exploits at unsuspecting PC users
who surf to one of the rigged sites.
For rest of the article, see:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4091&tag=nl.e539
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