SAN FRANCISCO — Ordinary websites are fast-becoming a top security threat for PC users.Tainted Web pages first appeared in late 2005. Now, they’re turning up as Google advertising links, on Wikipedia and elsewhere, “from top-tier names to mom and pop bakery shops,” says Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense.
VIDEO: How users can get “nailed in 30 seconds”Cybercrooks are corrupting Web pages by the tens of thousands. By tapping holes in the Internet Explorer browser, they implant tiny programs that connect the PC of anyone who simply clicks on the tainted page to a “mother ship” server, often in Russia or China.
