The number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled from a year ago to more than 1.2 million. Sites of larger government agencies increasingly are hit, including the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Treasury, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Drive-by downloads on legitimate Web sites have become the most popular method for delivering malicious programs, overtaking the use of spam and e-mail attachments, Dasient said. The NIH has been infected and reinfected five times in the last two years, and Alabama’s site was infected 37 times.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2010/11/infected-web-sites-double-in-2010.html