"Large numbers of legitimate Web sites, including government sites in
the U.K. and some operated by the United Nations, have been hacked and
are serving up malware, a security researcher said today as massive
JavaScript attacks last detected in March resume.
"They're using the same techniques as last month, of an SQL injection
of some sort," said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at
Websense Inc., referring to large-scale attacks that have plagued the
Internet since January.
Among the sites hacked were several affiliated with either the UN or U.K. government agencies, said Websense.
The exact number of sites that have been compromised is
unknown, said Hubbard. He estimated that it's similar to the March
attacks, which at their height infected more than 100,000 URLs,
including prominent domains such as MSNBC.com. "
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