“MPack Trojan Attack Claims 10,000 Web Sites”

Lots of talk out there on this ‘MPack’ trojan attack. Keep your eyes peeled on this one.

This is a ‘drive-by’ attack, where just visiting an infected site can grab your computer for the virus writer’s rotten motives. And as it says above, there are now 10,000 infected sites (as of yesterday, June 18).

The eWeek story says:

Researchers at Trend Micro are reporting that as many as 10,000 Web sites have been infected with malicious code that redirects unsuspecting users to a server booby-trapped with drive-by exploits—part of a wave of attacks originating in Italy and now spreading through Europe.

Read the eWeek story here