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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2128813,00.asp
ANI Trojan Sticks It to Popular Geek Hardware Site Visitors
More than a month after Microsoft patched the .ANI vulnerability, the geek favorite e-tailer Tom’s Hardware has found the W32.ani Trojan lurking in one of its banner ads.
ScanSafe, a managed Web security services company, on May 8 noticed a spike in traffic blocks that had a common theme. The company found that Tomshardware.com was unknowingly hosting the banner ad, which was redirecting users to a site where the driveby malware was automatically downloaded. In an interview with ScanSafe, Vice President of Product Strategy Dan Nadir said that the ad was being hosted out of a site in Argentina.
The banner ad was up, infecting victims with unpatched systems, for 24 hours. When ScanSafe contacted Tom’s Hardware, they were told that the site had already learned of the Trojan from its victims. The site has since removed the ad.
For any high-volume site such as Tom’s Hareware, a threat such as this stands to get many hits before it’s removed, even if it’s up only for an hour, Nadir pointed out.
According to a media kit on Tom’s Hardware, the site gets more than 5 million unique page views from more than 1.9 million unique visitors monthly. It ranks at No. 923 on Amazon.com’s Alexa Web traffic ranking service, according to ScanSafe.
The incident illustrates the current status of malware worming its way into places that many people wouldn’t expect them to be. “The trend a couple years ago was you could tell people to keep away from [certain sites, such as porn sites], and you’ll be safe. Because of these exploits, any site can potentially host malicious content. You can’t just rely on user education or URL filtering that says ‘This is a good site’ vs. ‘This s a bad site.’ Any site can potentially be a bad site. We’ve seen them in lots of MySpace pages, on Wikipedia pages and in banner ads. They’re all over the place now,” Nadir said.
A service like ScanSafe sits on the front end and uses real-time scanning to block these types of Trojan downloads before they have a chance to infect a system.