Over 100,000 websites (including popular ones) hacked yesterday

[Alan T]

This is not anything new, nothing shocking or surprising, but I figured I would post this as a new warning for people that do not see the need to use programs like firefox's noscript or other web browser methods of blocking scripts from running in your browser.

Yesterday a ton of websites, including some pretty mainstream ones were hacked thanks to an exploit through banner ads on those pages. Some of the very common pages included:

Wall Street Journal
TomTom
The Jerusalem Post
Various local government sites all over, etc.


Mass hack plants malware on thousands of webpages • The Register

Mass infection of IIS/ASP sites – robint.us | Sucuri Security


Most likely some of the larger sites have been fixed by now, while others are in progress of being fixed. Just view this as a reminder that practicing safe web-surfing helps keep your systems clean. You can't trust any website to be clean these days, even commonly used ones. We've seen in the past even FOFC have banner ads with injected iframe hacks that could end up possibly putting spyware on unprotected systems.