Netizens are no longer playing Russian Roulette each time they visit a Web site, security researchers say, now that a far-reaching Internet attack has been defanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The attack, which had turned some Web sites into points of digital infection was nipped in the bud on Friday, when Internet engineers managed to shut down a Russian server that had been the source of malicious code for the attack.<\/p>\n
Compromised Web sites are still attempting to infect Web surfers’ PCs by referring them to the server in Russia, but that computer can no longer be reached.<\/p>\n
Still, Web surfers should still take care, as this type of attack is increasingly being used by the Internet underground as a way to get by network defenses and infect officer workers’ and home users’ computers.<\/p>\n
A large financial client called in Symantec in late April after an employee used Internet Explorer to browse an infected Web site and his system became infected.<\/p>\n
Last fall, a similar attack may have been facilitated through a mass intrusion at Interland, said sources familiar with that case.<\/p>\n
The Internet Explorer flaws that allowed the Russian attack, however, affect every user of the Web browser, because Microsoft has not yet released a patch. “We are not seeing that this threat is widespread, but we believe the threat to be real,” said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for Microsoft’s security response center.<\/p>\n
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