JavaScript injection attacks seem to be the in thing these days. Malware writers are increasingly utilizing such attacks as a better means to spread their work. As little as a year ago, the bad guys were dependent on enticing people to follow links that pointed to malicious websites (via e-mail, search links, or IM worms). Today, they are using JavaScript injection attacks to simply "steal" a website’s visitors, and it has become something of a Swiss Army Knife for underground hackers to spread their malware worldwide.
This post was last modified on January 4, 2009 12:21 am