Phishers attack the green zones

Safe Web-surfing tools such as McAfee SiteAdvisor and Netcraft Toolbar scan thousands of Web sites daily, pronouncing some safe, some suspicious, and some dangerous. Phishers (fraudsters, online criminals, apply your own appropriate term), tired of having their creations on a blacklist, are now circling back behind these tools and, when possible, compromising sites with a familiar hacking technique that’s been known for several years to inject dangerous JavaScript on these sites previously marked as safe.

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