In our previous Blog post, we informed you about hosting packages on our Linux Hosting environment being affected by Gumblar Attacks. Over the past few days, we have been investigating these attacks, and working on methods to mitigate the damage caused by them; our findings and recommendations are as follows: Through our investigations, it was confirmed that the infection was not due to any server vulnerability. We enforce stringent security measures to safeguard your data.…
Over the past few weeks, several websites hosted on our Linux Servers threw up virus alerts. Further investigation revealed that these alerts were triggered by an injection attack on packages hosted on our servers, commonly known as Gumblar Attacks. FTP logs of these infected packages indicated that machines of the customers who own those domains were compromised and had been used to upload malicious content to their respective Hosting Packages. A few pointers for…