From Apple headquarter computers to the Twitter profiles of big-name corporations, this week has been full of hacks. Today is no different.
According to a ZDNet report, around 12PM PST, NBC.com along with a few other NBC websites were compromised and served malware for a few hours due to the RedKit exploit. To serve the malware, RedKit deployed a banking trojan called Citadel, which is a version of the Zeus Trojan.
"RedKit was first publicly identified last year in May as an exploit kit that contains an API that generates new host-site URLs every hour. RedKit malware targets vulnerabilities in applications such as Java and Adobe Reader."
The pages have since been swapped and are most likely safe to visit. However, the hackers likely still have access to the sites. The great news for Webroot users? While SecureAnywhere doesn't prevent the exploit itself from working, it targets the payload (Citadel), thus protecting users from this Zeus-variant malware.
