Fish and Chip Website Battered By Malware

Security vendor Sophos has warned that the website of Harry Ramsden, the UK fish and chip chain, has been hacked and is hosting a piece of malicious script.

Graham Cluely, senior technology consultant at Sophos told eWEEK Europe that Harry Ramsden's website has been carrying the code for several days now. Cluely said the malicious script on the site, in turn drags down another piece of malicious code, from a German website. “This often happens where a tiny bit of script is inserted into a website, which then drags down further malicious script that does more damage,” said Cluely.

“What appears to have happened is that hackers were trying to spread malware via the Harry Ramsden website, and the script was trying to pull down content from the German site,” said Cluely. “However, it looks like the infection on the Harry Ramsden website is broken, so it is not currently grabbing any malicious content.”