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Over One Hundred Thousand Websites Infected in New Attack
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-12-11 16:40:06 256
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By Lucian Constantin @ Softpedia News
Security researchers have detected a new mass injection attack that has compromised over 130,000 websites so far. A rogue IFrame is used to exploit visitors and infect their computers with a banking trojan.
The attack apparently began in late November and has grown at a steady pace since then. A Google search for the malicious frame performed two days ago revealed 125,000 results, while a new search today resulted in 131,000 hits. On the other hand, Yahoo! reports over 300,000 results for the same query.
"The injected iframe loads the first stage of malicious content from 318x[dot]com. A series of iframes and code redirections (invisible to the user) then ensues, culminating in a rather curious method for managing the final payload (the actual malware delivery)," explains Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at Web security company ScanSafe, now part of Cisco.
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