5 Million Domains Serving Malware Via Network Solutions 67
An anonymous reader writes "A compromised widget provided by Network Solutions was serving malware on otherwise legitimate websites. But, as bad as this discovery was, it was overshadowed a couple of days later by another revelation: the widget is automatically included on every 'parked domain' by Network Solutions! Searches on Google and Yahoo! revealed 500,000 and 5,000,000 domains affected and serving malware, respectively. A manual check of some 200 parked domains on the list showed that all of them were provided with the malware-serving widget."
The researchers who uncovered this issue alerted Network Solutions, and the widget was taken down a few hours later.
Malware = Response Policy? (Score:2, Interesting)
Malware within malware? (Score:3, Interesting)
Is this analysis of r57shell [blogspot.com] still relevant?
Malware via browsers? (Score:1, Interesting)
Apart from Internet Explorer and ActiveX, how the hell can a web page infect a computer via a Web browser?
AFAIK Javascript can't write files to the OS, so how are they doing it?
Re:At least they did the right thing (Score:2, Interesting)
"The researchers who uncovered this issue alerted Network Solutions, and the widget was taken down a few hours later."
Sucks that it happened, but at least they did something about it as soon as they found out.
NOT surprised from these guys.
They have a bad track record and continue to indulge in dirty practices like domain stealing.
Re:Network Solutions (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Malware via browsers? (Score:3, Interesting)
Damn it (Score:5, Interesting)
If I disregard the fact that this is an obvious Slashvertisment for some obscure thing called "HackAlert", let me tell you that I don't care WHICH or HOW MANY sites serve malware. There will always be sites serving malware, damn it!
What I care about (and this was -- as usual -- NOT answered anywhere in TFA/Slashvertisments), are these questions:
1. Does the served malware exploit a vulnerability for which no patch exists?
2. If 1 is true, what browsers and operating systems are affected?
If any kind soul knows and posts this information, you are bound to get some positive karma. Thanks.