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In brief Web hosting and domain name concern GoDaddy has disclosed a fresh attack on its infrastructure, and concluded that it is one of a series of linked incidents dating back to 2020.

The business took the unusual step of detailing the attacks in its Form 10-K – the formal annual report listed entities are required to file in the US.

The filing details a March 2020 attack that “compromised the hosting login credentials of approximately 28,000 hosting customers to their hosting accounts as well as the login credentials of a small number of our personnel” and a November 2021 breach of its hosted WordPress service.

The latest attack came in December 2022, when boffins detected “an unauthorized third party…

You must be aware of the significance of security in cyberspace. In today’s world, cybercriminals do not change according to the businesses. Instead, owners have to mold their business functions according to the current cybercrimes.

Reports show that hackers can compromise 93% of the company networks today. It shows how lenient we have been throughout all these days regarding website security.

But this approach needs to be changed. That is why we have prepared a list of seven tips for you to help repel malware attacks and prevent hackers from gaining authorized access.

Let’s take a look at 7 ways to secure your website in 2022!

1. Prioritize plugin and software updates

Software updates should be your top priority simply because they can prevent a malware attack.

A CMS…

Researchers have disclosed details of two critical security vulnerabilities in Control Web Panel that could be abused as part of an exploit chain to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution on affected servers.

Tracked as CVE-2021-45467, the issue concerns a case of a file inclusion vulnerability, which occurs when a web application is tricked into exposing or running arbitrary files on the web server.

Control Web Panel, previously CentOS Web Panel, is an open-source Linux control panel software used for deploying web hosting environments.

Specifically, the issue arises when two of the unauthenticated PHP pages used in the application — “/user/login.php” and “/user/index.php” — fail to adequately validate a path to a script file, according to Octagon Networks’ Paulos…

Jessica Haworth

05 January 2022 at 14:56 UTC

Updated: 05 January 2022 at 14:57 UTC

Attackers leverage software supply chain to compromise high-traffic sites

Web skimming attacks are targeting hundreds of real estate websites via a cloud-based video hosting service, researchers have warned.

A blog post from Unit 42, the research arm of Palo Alto Networks, revealed how attackers are using the service to carry out a supply chain attack to inject card skimming malware onto victim sites.

Web skimming attacks occur when malicious script is injected into sites to steal information entered into web forms.

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For example, an online booking form…

Last weekend, a European web hosting provider with operations around the globe was hit by a number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The attacks peaked at 1.04Tbps, which is about half the largest recorded DDoS onslaught recorded to date, which occured when Amazon’s AWS Shield stopped a 2.3Tbps attack in February 2020.