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5 Million Domains Serving Malware Via Network Solutions

Posted by Soulskill on from the going-for-the-gusto dept.

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.

5 of 67 comments (clear)

  1. All your bases are belojg to use !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Commies will take what's yours and make it theirs !!

  2. Re:Genius Moderation FTW by scdeimos · · Score: -1, Troll

    What are the mods thinking today? Oh, this is /.

  3. Re:Network Solutions by ozmanjusri · · Score: -1, Troll
    accidentally hitting a parked domain on a Windows box

    Do you have any evidence that it's Windows malware being served?

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  4. Re:Malware via browsers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    1. Only nerds read or even know what a "bugzilla DB" is.
    2. Not everyone wants to mess with the whole administrator vs user accounts thing.
    3. Not everyone uses that crappy browser known as Firefox.

  5. Re:Network Solutions by countertrolling · · Score: 0, Troll

    Time for a Slashdot Poll... Pick a good one..

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