Attacks spread malware with help from AppleInsider

[b]Attacks spread malware with help from AppleInsider[/b]

By Dan Goodin

Posted in Malware, 16th December 2009 06:02 GMT

Malware purveyors are exploiting web vulnerabilities in appleinsider.com, lawyer.com, news.com.au and a dozen other sites to foist rogue anti-virus on unsuspecting netizens.

The ongoing attacks are notable because they use exploits based on XSS, or cross-site scripting, to hide malware links inside the URLs of trusted sites. That’s something application security expert Mike Geide doesn’t see often. As a result, people who expect to visit sites they know and trust are connected to a page that tries to trick them into thinking their computer is infected.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/rogue_av_attacks

Yo…kenny, this should have been posted in the new “secuity news” tread, shame on you… ;D

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52252.0

It would have been nice… :cry:

Maybe if it was in a sticky :wink:

It doesn’t need a sticky.
The continued adding of new items always make it come back to the top. :slight_smile:

Not quite ::slight_smile: