[HIB]Malicious widget hacked millions of Web sites

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As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said today. "This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I've seen," said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security company. Network Solutions disputed Huang's estimate of between 500,000 and 5 million infected sites, but was unable to provide its own count. Huang said his firm's researchers initially tracked the infection to a widget installed by Network Solutions on its GrowSmartBusiness.com site, then later discovered that the same widget was installed by default on all "parked" domains hosted by the Herndon, Va. hosting giant.

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