TechCrunch Europe serves up malware attack

Updated The European website of TechCrunch (eu.techcrunch.com), one of the world’s most popular blogs, appears to have fallen victim to hackers, who have planted a malicious script on their site, designed to infect unsuspecting visitors.

TechCrunch Europe posted a message on its Twitter feed earlier today describing warnings about malware being distributed via the site as “annoying”. Perhaps a rather unusual turn of phrase, which might suggest to observers that the warnings were erroneous rather than the result of a serious security problem.

A closer examination of TechCrunch Europe’s site reveals that the offending code – which uses a malicious iFrame – is found in a JavaScript file, used by the site as part of its WordPress infrastructure. This attempts to serve up a malicious PDF file, exploiting a vulnerability that brings to your…

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