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 Post subject: WordPress-based, GoDaddy-hosted websites hacked
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:47 am 
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WordPress-based, GoDaddy-hosted websites hacked
Posted on 09 June 2010.

WordPress users whose websites are hosted on GoDaddy servers have been targeted by fake AV peddlers - again.

According to Sucuri Security, the web hosting company's servers were hacked yesterday around 3pm EST, and thousand of WordPress blogs and other PHP based websites were contaminated with a malicious script that points to a fake AV hosted at hxxp;//cloudisthebestnow[dot]com/kp.php.

It is also interesting to note that the people behind this attack are the same ones that executed an identical attack against GoDaddy's servers less than a month ago:


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