The issue of hacked WordPress sites continues to persist, as evidenced by one victimized URL being used to host links to thousands if not millions or billions of shady pharmaceutical sites without the knowledge of the owners.
Security firm Blue Coat recently discovered that the storm.ca site, which belongs to a Canadian internet services company, was being used to host links to more than ten thousand pages of scam sites. After reporting the issue to the storm.ca team, the company quickly addressed the hack and shared some of the details behind it as an object lesson for others.
The sheer scale of the issue is notable: Blue Coat Malware Lab architect Chris Larsen determined that the number of pages that the site was hosting in the background was somewhere between ten thousand and ten billion. “Dozens of pages I tested between 1 and 10001 resolved, but page 9999999999 did not,” he explained in a blog
The sheer scale of the issue is notable: Blue Coat Malware Lab architect Chris Larsen determined that the number of pages that the site was hosting in the background was somewhere between ten thousand and ten billion. “Dozens of pages I tested between 1 and 10001 resolved, but page 9999999999 did not,” he explained in a blog
