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by at-fates-hands 4529 days ago
>>> And I bet that all those infected scripts come from one infected website.

Or one platform - Wordpress.

"Checkmarx, makers of an automated code review solution, recently looked at the top 50 plugins for WordPress examining them for vulnerabilities. Their analysis, published here, found 20% of the top 50 were vulnerable to the most common web attacks. Even more frightening, 7 out of 10 of the leading ecommerce plugins were vulnerable."

"To put this in perspective, this means that vulnerable plugins were downloaded to install in websites about 8 million times!"

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/7-10-leading-word...