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A mass hack of legitimate websites was larger and more far reaching than initially thought, it has been revealed.
Last week it was reported that the hack had infected hundreds of sites, which were being used to feed exploits to visitors.
However, new studies of the hack conducted by Scansafe have revealed that up to 10,000 sites were in fact compromised and furthermore that these have hijacked unpatched systems that steered to their URLs, PC World reports.
All the sites affected were hosted on Linux servers running the open source Web-server software Apache.
The hack meant that affected servers were infected with files that produce malicious Javascript that is in a constant state of change.
Upon visiting the site, an exploit cocktail is drawn which targets recently uncovered vulnerabilities on QuickTime, the Windows MDAC bug and a glitch in Yahoo Messenger which had been thought to have been fixed.
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