NBC.com website compromised

NBC.com may have been compromised by malware scammers at around midday PST on Thursday (approximately 2 hours from the publication of this post) – antivirus software a Citadel Trojan malware infection.

Whilst current scans of the pages reveal no infections it is likely that hackers still have access to the NBC website meaning it is still unsafe to visit. As of writing this post Facebook.com are actively blocking outgoing links to NBC.com

For around 15 minutes at noon PST, NBC.com redirected all of their visitors to the RedKit exploit kit – specifically, most of NBC’s pages contained an iFrame that redirected to the first stage of the RedKit malware. [Source ZDnet.com]

The RedKit malware exploit uses a Trojan called Citadel to harvest personal information – such as banking information and intellectual property – from a user’s computer. From there that user could be the victims of both identity theft and identity fraud.

Internet users are advised to avoid accessing the NBC.com website for now until they find out what is going on and sort out the problems their website is facing. This may take several hours.

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