NBC.com Hacked, Infected With Citadel Trojan

The website NBC.com was hacked Thursday and security experts warn that visitors to the site may have infected their computers with malicious software. Security software developer Malwarebytes identified the malware infecting NBC.com and properties like the network's website for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" as the Citadel Trojan.

"This morning, NBC.com was hacked and embedded with malicious iframe code that spread the Citadel Trojan. It was detected as Backdoor.Agent.RS. ... The NBC web site was compromised for about 15 min and the actual iframe with the malicious redirect was embedded in a javascript file located on the NBC.com web server," a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

The company said late on Thursday that its NBC.com website is safe to visit.

"A problem was identified and it has been fixed," an NBC Universal spokeswoman told Reuters. She said she could not confirm whether any users had been infected. But she said that no account information about users of the site had been compromised.

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