10,000 booby trapped web pages revealed

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 03/13/2008 - 09:54

Security researchers at McAfee have uncovered one of the biggest attacks of its kind to date, with some 10,000 web pages which had been rigged to entrap unsuspecting visitors.

Although the infected web pages look the same as they always did, under the hood the cyber-crooks had added some redirection JavaScript code to drive them to an invisible attack launched from China-based servers according to McAfee Avert Labs.

Upon successful redirection, the exploit will install a password-stealing program on the...


 

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