wraggster
March 20th, 2011, 01:04
UK Internet users were on the receiving end of a large drive-by web attack at the end of February, which attempted to push fake antivirus at least 750,000 times (http://news.techworld.com/security/3265970/uk-pc-users-hit-by-huge-fake-antivirus-attack/) on a single day alone, security company AVG has said. According to a company analysis, on Sunday 27 February, detection levels for the previously obscure Russian 'Blackhole' exploit kit suddenly spiked to 900,000 globally from a few tens of thousands that would be typical for such kits, before dropping back again. Unusually, almost 750,000 of these detections were for UK PCs, which offers a baseline for what must have been a sustained attack several times that size against mainstream web servers frequented by users in the country."http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/19/0342207/UK-PC-Users-Hit-By-Huge-Fake-Antivirus-Attack