Popular tennis site in hack

Webpages on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) website have been infected with malicious code, according to security experts.

The rogue script has been injected into several pages on the site and triggers a surfer's PC to download more malicious software when the page is viewed, Sophos said.

The attack has been timed to coincide with a surge in traffic to many tennis-related websites caused by Wimbledon.

"The hackers responsible for this attack don't care what sites they infect, so long as there is a stream of potential victims likely to surf across the net, straight into their trap," said Fraser Howard, principal virus researcher at Sophos. T

"The ATP website is just one of many sites to have been exploited by hackers trying to steal information from innocent internet users," Howard continued.

Sophos said that it was up to the owners and administrators of the infected sites to make sure they were safe to protect innocent surfers.

"Aside from simply having to clean up their databases to remove the malicious scripts, it is imperative that site administrators identify and fix pages containing code susceptible to these injection attacks."

Sophos said it had contacted the ATP to tell them of the breach and that the ATP was working on a fix.

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