Second mass hack exposed
March 21, 2008
Hot on the heels of a recent hack in which 10,000 sites were compromised, researchers have disclosed a new large-scale attack..
Researchers at McAfee estimated that the advance has been alive for almost one week, and in that time anatomy has managed to abode itself on almost 200,000 web pages.
Most of the adulterated pages are alive the phpBB appointment software, said McAfee. The compromised pages are anchored with a Javascript book that links to the armpit hosting the attack.
Rather than advance to accomplishment browser vulnerabilities, the advance attempts to ambush a user into manually ablution its awful payload.
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