After a quick investigation, I found that some javascript had been injected into some of the pages of my blog and unfortunately some of my visitors may have been infected. Hopefully they had antivirus software to block the attack. Since I take security very seriously, I outsourced the removal of the injected javascript to Sucuri.net who promptly investigated the issue and has since removed the malware.

The one positive that has come out of this, is that I have now decided to continue with Sucuri’s malware monitoring service to ensure that this type of malware injection doesn’t go unnoticed in the future. Their malware monitoring service now provides as often as hourly monitoring of my sites files and immediate notification if the site was to ever be compromised again.

Apologies to any users who were affected by this attack. We can all learn a lesson from this type of attack as they are becoming more widely spread particularly with popular platforms like WordPress.