Exploit Prevention Labs Releases August Exploit Survey Results

An IFRAME is a common HTML tag, and is the primary mechanism used by cyber criminals to infect web site visitors with exploits via drive-by downloads. When a user with an unpatched system hits the site, the IFRAME command causes the user's browser to silently connect to another server, often an exploit server, that then attempts to force-download exploit code onto the user's computer.

"Although these sites are not actively serving exploits right now, we keep a close eye on them because cyber criminals frequently reactivate their exploit servers at a later date," said Roger Thompson, CTO of Exploit Prevention Labs and the survey's primary author. "The orphaned lures are also interesting because the site owners remain oblivious to the fact that they've been hacked and that they most like remain vulnerable to further hacks by the exploit distributors."

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