Tag Archives: compromise

Huge backdoor discovered that could compromise SSH logins on Linux

March 31, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0

On Friday March 29, Microsoft employee Andres Freund shared that he had found odd symptoms in the xz package on Debian installations. Freund noticed that ssh login was requiring a lot of CPU and decided to investigate leading to the discovery.

The vulnerability has received the maximum security ratings with a CVS score of 10 and a Red Hat Product Security critical impact rating.


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GoDaddy's compromise. – CyberWire

February 21, 2023 Web Shared Hosting News 0

GoDaddy has disclosed that it discovered a breach in December 2022 that resulted in a threat actor redirecting customer websites to malicious domains, BleepingComputer reports.

Threat actor targets hosting services.

GoDaddy says the threat actor was able to install malware in the company’s cPanel shared hosting environment:

“In early December 2022, we started receiving a small number of customer complaints about their websites being intermittently redirected. Upon receiving these complaints, we investigated and found that the intermittent redirects were happening on seemingly random websites hosted on our cPanel shared hosting servers and were not easily reproducible by GoDaddy, even on the same website.

“As our investigation continued, we discovered that an unauthorized third party…


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