A security researcher has identified what he believes is one of the biggest clusters of drive-by attack sites. According to Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Armorize Technologies, a compromised widget called “Small Business Success Index†turned anywhere between 500,000 to 5,000,000 million websites into malware carriers.
Huang’s estimate might seem implausible until you are told that the hacked widget was found on all parked domains hosted with web hosting company Network Solutions. For those of you unfamiliar with web hosting argot, a parked domain is one that continues to be unused even after being registered. Network Solutions pulled the plug on the widget over the weekend, within three hours of being notified by Armorize.
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Hacked Web Widget Turned 5 Million Sites into Malware Carriers
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Hi, I am with Network Solutions and want to assure you that we are working on this issue and have additional clarifications and updates at http://bit.ly/9g5qv4 Please note that this has NOT affected 5M sites as reported online. Our preliminary analysis is that the potential affected under construction web pages was less than 120k around the time of detection of the malware. Please visit http://bit.ly/9g5qv4 for frequent updates and a FAQ on the issue. –Susan Wade