Malware

Hasbro website served malware to visitors

Throughout this month, Hasbro.com, an online retailer for children's toys and board games, has infected users via drive-by download.

Researchers at Barracuda Labs discovered that the website served up malware to visitors computers as recently as last Monday.

In addition, Hasbro.com was compromised users on Jan. 10, 11 and 14, a Monday blog post from the research team revealed.

Victims who visited the page were redirected several times until they arrived at a page hosting several Java exploits.

In November, researchers at Barracuda Labs also discovered that a popular humor site, Cracked.com, had been compromised to host the Nuclear Pack exploit kit.

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