Hijacked Websites by the Numbers

**Executive summary:** This report documents the widespread problem of hijacked websites and drive-by exploitation, citing large-scale statistics (millions of infected sites, Blackhole exploit kit prevalence), examples of high-profile compromised sites, common vulnerable software (WordPress, Joomla, PHPMyAdmin, cPanel/Plesk), attack techniques (SQL injection, exploit kits), and specific IOCs from spam campaigns that redirect users to a malicious Java applet.