Malware caused the recent website redirects issue, says GoDaddy

Popular web domain name service provider GoDaddy has confirmed that intermittent redirects were happening on seemingly random websites hosted on its cPanel shared hosting servers. 

After receiving customer complaints in December 2022 about their websites being intermittently redirected, GoDaddy investigated and found that an unauthorized third party had gained access to servers in its cPanel shared hosting environment and installed malware which led to the intermittent redirection of customer websites. The situation has been remediated and security measures implemented to prevent future infections. 

In a regulatory filing to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), popular web domain name service provider GoDaddy has confirmed that the company suffered a multi-year security…