Hosting Provider Inmotion Hacked, Thousands Of Sites Affected

snoopy · Sep 28, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Hosting Provider InMotion Hacked, Thousands of Sites Affected

InMotion, a large hosting provider based in California, was compromised in recent days and the attackers were able to replace the index files of thousands of sites, defacing them and in some cases making it difficult for site owners to recover and reload their sites.

The attack occurred on Sunday and the company posted a notice on its site about the incident, but many users posting on the company's forums complained that they were never notified about the attack by InMotion. Some of them said that they only learned that their sites had been defaced when a customer or other third party informed them about it. In a message posted on the company's support forum, InMotion's president said that the company had identified the vector that the attacker used to compromise its systems and determined that the only goal was to deface customer sites.

Some of the customers posting on the InMotion support forum said that when they connected to their sites while they were displaying the defaced page, they were getting alerts from their antimalware programs about a JavaScript-based piece of malware. It's possible that the attacker's goal in defacing thousands of sites was to load some malware on the pages to be used in drive-by download attacks against visitors. This is one of the more common and effective techniques employed by attackers right now, and viewing the mirrors of the hacked InMotion sites hosted on Zone-H will produce an alert from antimalware applications about a JavaScript Trojan.
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