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In a multi-year intrusion, Web hosting platform GoDaddy has revealed that cyber-criminals gained access to its systems, installed malware on its network and stolen parts of its source code.

In order to further investigate the issue, the company said that it is working with multiple law enforcement agencies around the world, in addition to forensics experts.

GoDaddy Targeted by Cyber Criminals

The company said in a statement that “We have evidence, and law enforcement has confirmed, that this incident was carried out by a sophisticated and organised group targeting hosting services like GoDaddy”.

The hackers’ goal was to infect websites and servers with malware for phishing campaigns, malware distribution and other malicious activities. GoDaddy revealed in a US Securities and…

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…

GoDaddy also faced security events from 2020 to 2022, which it shared were carried out by the same attacker.
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An unauthorised third party gained access to GoDaddy, a web host, domain registrar and website building platform’s, servers in its cPanel shared hosting environment and installed malware causing intermittent redirection of customer websites, the platform shared in a blog post.

The breach was first discovered in December 2022 after the platform investigated customer complaints about their sites being used to redirect to random domains.

The company claims that a sophisticated threat actor group, among other things, installed malware on its systems and obtained pieces of code related to some services in the Dec. 2022 attack.

The company also…

Late last week [2023-02-16], popular web hosting company GoDaddy filed its compulsory annual 10-K report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Under the sub-heading Operational Risks, GoDaddy revealed that:

In December 2022, an unauthorized third party gained access to and installed malware on our cPanel hosting servers. The malware intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites. We continue to investigate the root cause of the incident.

URL redirection, also known as URL forwarding, is an unexceptionable feature of HTTP (the hypertext transfer protocol), and is commonly used for a wide variety of reasons.

For example, you might decide to change your company’s main domain name, but want to keep all your old links alive; your company might…