More than half a million legitimate Web sites have been compromised in a new round of attacks. Attackers hacked domains in order to infect unsuspecting users’ PCs with a variety of malware. The last massive site attack was less than three weeks ago, when sites that included government URLs in the U.K. and some domains operated by the United Nations were hacked. All of the sites, he confirmed, are running “phpBB,” an open-source message forum manager. Attack is the latest in a string that goes back to at least January.”]
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