Cybercriminals have launched a huge worldwide attack on more then 10,000 websites yesterday. Goal was to infect those 10,000 websites with a codechange to redirect visitors to another website. This redirection would make it possible to gain entrance to the victims computers and so gain acces to their passwords.Remarkable in this attack is that the main purpose was to get passwords for online games like secondlife , World of Warcraft etc...
After retrieving the login data money or valuable items can be transfered or stolen.
Threat Researcher "Toralv Dirro" (McAfee) says that this was one of the biggest attacks of this kind sofar.
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