30

Stories about: domain abuse

cPanel Vulnerability Abused to Misuse High Profile Domains Spammers have exploited a cPanel vulnerability at a hosting company in order to abuse high profile domains belonging to educational, financial and public institutions.The compromises began in April 2010 at Hostmonster, an Utah-based hosting company owned by Bluehost, and lasted until earlier this monthBluehost co-fou... 17 January 2011 01:30 GMT Government Domains Point to Adult Content Security researchers warn that various domains in the .gov space had their DNS hijacked and are hosting pages that redirect users to adult websites. The hijacking seems to be part of a scheme to push FLVDirect adware.Apparently, FLVDirect affiliates are abusing several government domains, including, but not limited t... 16 July 2010 08:20 GMT