Millions of Sites Hit With Mass-Injection Cyberattack Called LizaMoon
Hundreds of thousands — and possibly millions — of websites have been hit with a cyberattack that some are calling “one of the biggest mass-injection attacks we’ve ever seen.” The attack was discovered on March 29 by security firm WebSense, and the injected domain was called lizamoon.com — thus, the name of the mass-injection is “LizaMoon.” According to WebSense, LizaMoon uses SQL Injection to add malicious script to compromised sites. While the first injected domain was lizamoon.com, additional URLs have since been injected in the attack (WebSense has a full list here).
When WebSecurity discovered the attack on March 29, 28,000 URLs had been compromised. The number quickly grew to 226,000, including many iTunes URLs (though the malicious code is neutralized by Apple). “The good thing is that iTunes encodes the script tags, which means that the script doesn’t execute on the user’s computer,” WebSense security blogger Patrik Runald wrote on Tuesday, “So good job, Apple.” The number of infected sites now appears to be over 1.5 million (at the time of this blog post, a quick Google Search shows 1.53 million infected URLs).
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