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Play Station website under attack

Antivirus vendor Sophos has revealed Sony PlayStation fans may have been exposed to online threats following the discovery of an SQL injection attack on the game console's official website.

Hackers compromised the site and planted a fake antivirus scanner on pages promoting the SingStar Pop and God of War games, which users to the site may have been prompted to download.

According to Graham Cluley from Sophos, millions of PlayStation fans worldwide access the game's website regularly and would not expect any online security issues there.

He said: "Most would never expect that surfing to a website like this could potentially infect them with malware.

"If users do not have sufficient protection in place then they might find that before they know it they have been scared into handing their credit card details over to a bunch of cyber criminals."

Last week Sophos revealed the Association of Tennis Professionals website had also been infected with a malicious code.

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