After GoDaddy announced a significant breach last week, where hackers may have had access to the company’s network for years, the infosec industry has voiced concerns.
GoDaddy said last week that it detected the breach in December as a result of customer complaints in a statement to its website and a 10-K Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. After breaching GoDaddy’s corporate network, unidentified threat actors planted malware on its cPanel hosting servers, which occasionally redirected users’ webpages to fraudulent websites, according to an ongoing investigation with law authorities.
According to the company’s statement, “we have proof, and law enforcement has confirmed, that this incident was carried out by a sophisticated and coordinated gang targeting hosting businesses like GoDaddy.”
With more than 21 million clients, GoDaddy is one of the biggest domain registrars and hosting companies. The main goal of hackers is to infect websites and servers with malware for phishing campaigns, malware distribution, and other harmful operations.
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