Jamie Oliver serves up steaming pile of malware

Tousle-haired celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has served up a stomach-churning exploit kit to those who visit his web site. His eponymous .com site, ranked 519 in the UK and drawing some 10 million visitors a month was compromised to plate-up the foul-tasting Fiesta exploit kit to compromise user machines. Malwarebytes senior …

[jake]

So his handlers are not only clueless about food ...

... they are also clueless about technology. Whodathunkit.

[albaleo]

Compromised Javascript

Your article gets in the usual digs at Flash, Silverlight and Java, but doesn't mention that it started from some compromised Javascript. It would interesting to know how that could happen.

[frank ly]

Shuttered?

I had a look at eponymous.com and it's just a static page with barely any content. Nothing to do with Jamie Oliver at all. Has it been closed down or something?

[NathanD]

Re: Shuttered?

adjective: eponymous

(of a person) giving their name to something.

e.g. His eponymous '.com' site: jamieoliver.com

;-)

[AlanB]

Re: Shuttered?

> (of a person) giving their name to something

Which would make him the eponymous Jamie Oliver (i.e. having web site, TV series, restaurant named after him). The reverse usage seems to be well established though.

[Nash]

They were probably...

...trying to steal some Dough.

or

maybe they kneeded the publicity....

[Truth4u]

my grandma uses base64 encoding to hide iframes

must try harder

[Extra spicey vindaloo]

My windows got wiped out by a bad windows update.

I had to reinstall windows from scratch,

Wiped the disk with Linux CD.

Installed Windows.

Installed Antivirus, allowed to update and check the entire machine.

Opened up Internet Explorer to go to Windows Update.

5+ viruses and 2 malware apps installed just from the Bing home page.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: My windows got wiped out by a bad windows update.

Step 3. That's where your problem is.

[sisk]

After his lies about the food industry caused high quality ground beef to get more expensive and put a whole lot of people (including my brother-in-law) out of work I can't bring myself to feel sorry for him. .