5 Million Domains Serving Malware Via Network Solutions

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.

Comments

I saw the ads

[HangingChad]

I saw a couple of those ads, which was pretty funny to suddenly see a strange file tree on my Linux box. It was pretty scary. For a minute I thought my PC had been infected with Windows.

Genius Moderation FTW

[drinkypoo]

Network Solutions (Score:2, Redundant)
by ravenspear (756059) on 08-16-10 14:56 (#33268844)
used to be the place to go for domains.

Now they are completely redundant.

Re:Genius Moderation FTW

[drinkypoo]

He did. I like karma because it permits me to speak my mind (which more often than not costs me karma) but what I like more than karma is a discussion about something I find interesting. I would rather have comments than positive mods... but send more positive mods anyway ;)

NetSol and Malware

[MTTECHYBOY]

Network Solutions = Malware...??? Nothing new here