Most Malicious Software Attack Ever Using Infected Web Sites Reported
| June 19, 2007 |  View for printing |
4,500-plus travel sites in Italy attacked in which stolen customer data is sent to a server in Chicago.
In an Internet attack dubbed "The Italian Job," several thousand Italian tourism Web sites have been infected by software that quietly gains control of computers visiting them and seeks out confidential financial data, a computer security firm said on Monday.
By Jim Finkle, Reuters
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