Take mind if you visit the main page of AOL UK today – a narrative about Kate Middleton being pregnant (or rather a doll of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge) has a spiteful sting in its tail.
The story, featured highly on AOL’s main webpage, points to a dissimilar website – MyDaily.co.uk – another part of the AOL media territory. The My Daily website uses a lawful piece of JavaScript code to “carousel” different adverts on the website. However, hackers have managed to breach security on the site and insert their own line of code. The code the cybercriminals have inject onto the webpage attempts to run malicious code from a third-party site.
Malicious hackers love to use high traffic websites. Think about it, quite than luring you to visit a site created by a hacker (in order to infect your computer) they can cooperation an obtainable popular website and simply wait for traffic to come their way. Always run up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer, and make sure that every webpage your computer visits is being scan for hateful code.