Scary New Trend...Popular Sites Being Hacked

I am starting to see a scary new trend. And I wasn't even going to post this
because I didn't want to give some other nut cases out there any ideas but
people need to be warned or their PCs could turn into a wasteland.

This is essentially what's going on in a nutshell.

It appears that some person or persons is looking to see what the biggest
current events of the day are, going to those sites about them and hacking
the ones that are easy to hack. Naturally, a site like CNN is going to be
tough, but people who are putting up daily news sites, you know, the regular
folk like us, they're the ones getting hacked.

I went to look up info on Paul McCartney's concert at Citi Field last night
and I found no less than 3 sites that were hacked where Kaspersky gave
me a virus warning.

And this has been going on for about a week or so now.

Please be careful to ONLY go to sites where you are reasonably sure
that they're going to be safe, like a CNN of other reputable site.

At the very least, make sure you have virus protection and that it's updated.

I've been lucky so far because I'm protected, but this is some scary stuff
that's going around.

Like I said, I was hesitant to even bring this up but if I didn't innocent
people could be walking into a hornet's nest and I just couldn't let that
happen.

Anyway, be careful.

** EDIT **

It is quite possible that these people are putting up these sites knowing
they'll be visited and they're the ones installing the trojans or whatever.

I just thought of that. This may not be a hacking job at all.