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Florida Government Website Compromised, Set Up to Serve Malware

03
Apr
2014

The official website of the government of Arcadia (arcadia-fl.gov), a city in Florida, has been breached and set up to push a pop-up advertising a video player.

Researchers from Malwarebytes were the first to report the breach. Experts found that the sites visitors were presented with a pop-up message that instructed them to install VIO Player via the Optimum Installer download manager. Such installers usually try to get (trick) users to install other pieces of software, such as web br…

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