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March 19, 2011 07:43 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SyFP2bNrd7U/UK-PC-Users-Hit-By-Huge-Fake-Antivirus-Attack
UK PC Users Hit By Huge Fake Antivirus Attack
An anonymous reader writes "UK Internet users were on the receiving end of a large drive-by web attack at the end of February, which attempted to push fake antivirus at least 750,000 times on a single day alone, security company AVG has said. According to a company analysis, on Sunday 27 February, detection levels for the previously obscure Russian 'Blackhole' exploit kit suddenly spiked to 900,000 globally from a few tens of thousands that would be typical for such kits, before dropping back again. Unusually, almost 750,000 of these detections were for UK PCs, which offers a baseline for what must have been a sustained attack several times that size against mainstream web servers frequented by users in the country." 
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