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Updated Dynamic filtering: Benefits of blocking 3rd party iframe tags (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2015-08-07 09:25:36 -04:00
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URL: <http://www.riskiq.com/resources/blog/jquerycom-malware-attack-puts-privileged-enterprise-it-accounts-risk>
`iframe` are very often used by malware code on compromised web sites. The most recent example of this is ~~[jquery.com](http://blog.jquery.com/2014/09/24/update-on-jquery-com-compromises/)~~ [Firefox's javascript-based PDF reader](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/).
`iframe` tags are very often used by malware code on compromised web sites. The most recent example of this is ~~[jquery.com](http://blog.jquery.com/2014/09/24/update-on-jquery-com-compromises/)~~ [Firefox's javascript-based PDF reader](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/).
The web site was compromised, and users of the site were served tainted web pages, which could cause a user's browser to download exploit kit from some remote servers. This was done first through a malicious 3rd-party `<script>`, which purpose was to dynamically create and embed a 3rd-party-sourced `<iframe>` on the page.