Beladen Loads Hacked Web Sites With Badness (Washington Post)

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At least 40,000 Web sites recently were hacked and retrofitted with instructions that silently attempt to infest visitor PCs with malicious software, security experts warn. Internet security firm Websense has dubbed this series of attacks "Beladen," because the infected sites divert visitors to a site called beladen.net -- one of at least two exploit domains implicated in this attack (this ...

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