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Jan 14 2008

2007 FastHosts network breach leads to widespread Malware

Posted by: Andy Alsop in Breaches, Links to articles, Malware, tags: Breach, hacker, hosting, Malware, Network

In the end of 2007 we first noted the FastHosts breaches in the BreachBytes links to breach articles. On January 14, 2008, ComputerWorld reported that the seemingly benign and random breach(es) at FastHost - The UK’s largest hosting company - in late 2007 appear to be much worse than originally thought due to the damage that is now happening as a result. Here is the article:

New mass hack strikes sites, confounds researchers

It is interesting to see that the hackers continue to use more sophisticated methods to perform their damage and a variety of the knowledgeable security companies are quoted as not really knowing how to determine which sites were in fact infected.

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January 31st, 2008 at 4:24 pm - Edit
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