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NHL, MLB Websites Hit by Traffic-Redirection Ad Attack - UPDATE

Jim Carr writes on SC Magazine U.S.:

Malicious banner ads first affected visitors to the websites of Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League late last week, according to researchers at Exploit Prevention Labs.

According to Roger Thompson, chief technology officer, the malicious banner ads hijacked user sessions on both websites. The malware then tried to force the visitor to download malware posing as an anti-virus application.

Thompson told SCMagazineUS.com today that visitors were not able to avoid the malware.

More here.

Note: Also, some additional details on how this works from the folks over at Sunbelt Software. -ferg

UPDATE: 17:48 PST: Lisa Vaas, over at eWeek, makes the RBN connection. Details here. -ferg

posted by Fergie @ 11/14/2007 03:25:00 PM