Safari-specific phishing?

On 6 March I visited a new web site (just launched) called www.braintumourresearch.org
The site began to load but then a full frame appeared telling me that the site contained malware.
I clicked "Close" and was taken to a site purporting to be provided by Google. I quit Safari promptly and let the site creators know about the problem.
I made some follow-up checks and the malware window only appears in Safari on my Mac, and not in Firefox or Mozilla, nor in Explorer on my colleagues' PCs. The image claiming malware is, I think, called an iFrame although I'm not a techie.
So my question is: is this a Safari-only problem and is my Mac vulnerable as a result? Is this phishing or could it pose some other threat?
Any views welcome.
Regards,
TL

Hmm. Thanks for the reply Klaus, but I'm not convinced. The link in the warning is to something called internetcountercheck.com
I did a search on this and found a page suggesting it's the result of a hack:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/243838
There are some other pages that may be suggesting similar things, including a lot across Europe.
Moreover, my Mac lost its internet connection following my visit to internetcountercheck.com amd this morning I found a DNSChanger Trojan on my system.
I can't be sure that the two events are related, but the timing seems pretty extraordinary.
Regards,
TL

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