UPDATE: it appears to be fixed now.

As a way of background, I currently work in IT and I’ve worked in it off and on for the past 12 years or so.

I went to WBAL.com (the website of WBAL 1090 AM) last night and everything on the main page looked fine. I clicked on a story link and got a PDF that froze my browser. I didn’t think much of it until this morning when I went to the site and the same thing happened. This time the PDF it opened was a link on howareubro.com and contained a line of what appeared to be gibberish. I’m not sure if it was something in hex or if it was supposed to be l33t-speak.

Anyway, if you get any messages about installing software or downloading anything or any other action that’s not normal for wbal.com when you go to their site – say no. You may want to even avoid their site for awhile – we’ll let you know when it’s back to normal.

I found resources on howareubro.com via a note about a previous attack on Ecademy as well as people twittering about it.

UPDATE: it appears to be fixed now.