Mass Website Hack Compromises 200,000 Sites

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 17, @11:23PM
from the that-is-a-lot-of-angry-pr0n-bots dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "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 attack has been active for roughly one week, and in that time frame has managed to place itself on roughly 200,000 web pages. Most of the infected pages are running the phpBB forum software, said McAfee. The compromised pages are embedded with a Javascript file that links to the site hosting the attack."