Archive for the ‘Website Malware’ Category

For Several weeks Go Daddy has been blaming the bibzopl.com malware, that has been infecting some Go Daddy hosted websites since February, on users running either outdated versions of WordPress or outdated versions of software installation in general. These are both not true as the malware has infected websites running up to date software and [...]

Early this morning a new variant of the bibzopl.com malware, this variant calls a JavaScript file from holasionweb.com, infected a large number of Go Daddy hosted websites. By this morning their PR department had already contacted us again, with continued misinformation about the issue. If they eventually decide to work on discovering and fixing the [...]

In an interview Tuesday, Go Daddy’s Chief Information Security Officer Todd Redfoot claimed that the bibzopl.com malware that has been infecting some Go Daddy hosted websites was due users with outdated versions of WordPress installed in their account, which were exploited. Last Friday Go Daddy made the same claim, but by Monday they were claiming [...]

Go Daddy has released another statement about the bibzopl.com malware that has been infecting some Go Daddy hosted websites. The most recent statement continues their misinformation about the issue, while claiming that they are a “target for speculation and misinformation” The largest piece of misinformation is that the cause of the malware is outdated software [...]

On Friday, Go Daddy released a statement that claimed that “extensive investigation” they had determined that bibzopl.com malware that has been infecting some Go Daddy hosted websites was due to users running an outdated version of WordPress that had been “set up in a particular way”. In our post about the statement, we explained why [...]

After an “extensive investigation”, Go Daddy today released a statement with their findings about the bibzopl.com malware that has been infecting some Go Daddy hosted websites beginning in February.  They claimed the malware infection is due to users running an outdated version of WordPress that have been “set up in a particular way”.  This information [...]

Last week the Gumblar malware was neutralized when the files containing its malware infection code were replaced with code that attempted to neutralize iframes. Today, those files have been modified to redirect users to files on other websites that contain the malware code. Like the original websites that hosted the malware code, these new hosts [...]

Dasient, which monitors website for malware, reported that an estimated 640.000 websites and 5.8 million web pages were infected with malware in the third quarter of 2009. A significant portion of those infected websites, 39.6%, were reinfected during quarter. Websites can become reinfected if the vulnerability that allowed the website to be hacked into is [...]