In early 2015, visitors to the adult website xHamster saw a huge increase in malware, according to a report on the Malwarebytes blog. Over the 25th and 26th of January 2015, they saw a 1500% increase in malware infections from xHamster. Worse still, it’s still out there. What happened? What can you do if you’re infected? And how can you protect yourself? The Infection: Angler Exploit Kit According to MalwareBytes, the homepage of xHamster linked to traffichaus.com, where an iframe hosted there served as the gateway to a malicious ad. That ad used a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to...
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