cPanel Exploit Used to Circulate IE Exploit 95
miller60 writes "In a dangerous combination of unpatched exploits, hackers have used a previously undiscovered security hole in cPanel to hack the servers of a hosting company and use hundreds of hijacked sites to infect Internet Explorer users with malware using the unpatched VML exploit. cPanel, whose hosting automation software is used by many large hosting companies, has issued a fix. It's a local exploit, meaning the attacker must control a cPanel account on the target hosting provider."
As always.. (Score:2, Interesting)
CPanel bugs and malware hosting combo old (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:firefox (Score:5, Interesting)
It seems a bit odd to stick a proprietary web control panel to control a load of open-source software on an open-source web-server running on an open-source operating system.
But thats just me....
Bluehost issued a fix. (Score:4, Interesting)
Odd occurrence today (Score:3, Interesting)
My router's password dialog appears when hitting the page.
I don't think I've seen that one before.