Hundreds of GoDaddy Sites Caught Up in Hacking Campaign
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Hundreds of GoDaddy sites caught up in hacking campaign:
A new hacking campaign infecting hundreds of sites hosted by GoDaddy-hosted sites has been uncovered.
An investigation by the Wordfence Incident Response team found more than 280 websites hosted with GoDaddy's Managed WordPress service were infected with a backdoor.
Among the compromised services are MediaTemple, tsoHost, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe, with a total of 298 sites found to be infected.
[...] This unnamed backdoor, it was further explained, has been in use for at least seven years. The threat actors add it to the beginning of wp-config.php and its goal seems to be to generate spammy Google search results, including resources customized to the infected site.
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