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Huge chunks of the internet were redirecting to malware-spewing websites in the latest of a series of attacks on web giant GoDaddy over a three-year period.

So if you’ve had complaints from visitors that your site redirects to malicious pages, the problem might not be with you or your plug-ins. So how did this happen? How can you protect yourself from harmful redirects?

What Is GoDaddy?

If you want to set up a website for either personal or professional use, there are a few big providers who offer both registration and hosting packages to make your life easier. Of these, GoDaddy is one of the largest and boasts a 19.61 percent market share, according to Enlyft. With reasonably priced plans and a range of features including 24×7 security monitoring, GoDaddy regularly makes…

The company believes a “sophisticated and organised” group targeting hosting services was responsible for the attack.

GoDaddy is one of the largest domain registrars and web hosting services in the world, with more than 20 million customers worldwide.

The firm said some customers complained about websites being intermittently redirected in early December 2022.

Upon investigation, the company found the issue was affecting random websites hosted on GoDaddy’s cPanel shared hosting servers.

GoDaddy found that an unauthorised third party had gained access to its servers in the cPanel shared hosting environment, and had also installed malware causing the intermittent redirection.

As is standard, the company remediated the situation and implemented new security measures.

While it discovered…

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…

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XANTHI, THRACE, GREECE, November 15, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — While the Internet has many advantages, one disadvantage is that the more people do business online, the more vulnerable their information is to those who want to access our data through malicious attacks and fraud.

In recent years, billions of people have had their information compromised through attacks on high-profile companies like Yahoo,…