Warning to All Customers of BlueLayerGroup, Inc., www.bluelayermedia.com! On October 19, 2012, the BlueLayerMedia Staff issued a public statement on their website that their servers, domain registrar, and even payment processors were maliciously hacked and that they have closed their doors. They … Read more about BlueLayerMedia – Hacked and Closed their doors
A True Story of a Hacked WordPress Blog A guest post submitted by Dan Morris I've got an extremely important message for you today. I need you to know this in your heart so it never happens to you. I got hacked this week making all my sites, including my clients' sites go down and appear as having … Read more about How I Got Hacked – A True Story by Dan Morris
On December 22, 2010, we received several reports that a new malware attack (acrossuniverseitbenet) has infected WordPress sites hosted at GoDaddy and possibly other hosting providers. The malware script injected is as follows: (I have put spaces in the url below for your protection so you can't … Read more about Malware Attack: acrossuniverseitbenet Hacks WordPress Sites
ATBHost.net is warning customers on their forums that they’ve noticed FTP security breaches from many account holders. They report that they've managed to block many of the attacks, but some have gotten through becuase of users’ error and folder permission settings. We have received one confirmed … Read more about ATBHost Security Alert – FTP Security Breach Hacked Websites
On June 8, 2010 at approximately 3pm EST self-hosted WordPress blogs, along with other PHP based websites started getting attacked with cloudisthebestnow malware. This is a server-side hacker attack. We have confirmed reports of hacked websites hosted at Go Daddy again. However, other hosting … Read more about News: WordPress Hacked with cloudisthebestnow on Go Daddy
Reports of WordPress blogs self-hosted at GoDaddy.com and have been infected with the losotrana[dot]com/js.php on Monday, May 17, 2010 and Thursday, May 20, 2010. Warning: This is dangerous malware! This scareware injection tries to infect your site visitor's computer. If your visitors do not have … Read more about Breaking News: WordPress Hacked with losotrana on Go Daddy
Recent reports of yet another type of malicious hacker attacks have come to light. If you're self-hosting WordPress or any other type of website, you need to check your websites now for a hidden directory. A directory named ".files" has been found on numerous sites that contain spam links. David … Read more about Spam Links Infect WordPress Websites
Go Daddy continues to work around-the-clock to investigate the latest website attacks and to keep your website safe. They have added new help guides and tutorials for webmasters and are reaching out to their customers through emails and telephone calls. In addition, on May 5, 2010 Scott Gerlach, … Read more about Exploit on WordPress Returns – Go Daddy Responds!