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Italian-language page at MSN redirects to Cool Exploit Kit, serves ransomware

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Last week, security researchers from AVG's Web Threat Research Group detected a malicious JavaScript on an Italian-language page at MSN that was dropping ransomware on the affected hosts. How trusted are high profile "trusted" Web sites?

Last week, security researchers from AVG's Web Threat Research group detected a malicious JavaScript on an Italian-language page at MSN, which was at the time redirecting to the Cool Exploit Kit, ultimately dropping ransomware on the affected hosts.

The high profile Web site infection, in terms of the huge traffic volume that was logically hijacked during the campaign, raises an important question--can you really trust those "Trusted Web Sites" that average and corporate users often think are secure by default? The truth is that you can't afford to "wait and see," and need to always assume the worst, for the sake of your data/host/network's CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability).