MassCops Hacked

Gil · Sep 25, 2011

Guess we were one of many victims. Sorry it took so long to fix was stuck at drill, there is only so much one can do from their iPhone

For several hours Sunday morning, Blast Magazine and many other websites in the InMotion Hosting network were attacked by a hacker called [email protected] InMotion, where Blast hosts one of its servers, acknowledged the breach.

“At around 4 a.m. EST, our system administration team identified a website defacement attack affecting a large number of customers. We are still investigating, but it appears that files named index.php have been defaced. We are evaluating how this has occurred and our security team will have more information shortly,” InMotion said in a statement. “While we review this issue, cPanel and SSH access has been disabled on various platforms. For additional security, we are rotating passwords on a number of accounts.”
It is unclear how many sites were hit, but it is likely hundreds, if not thousands.

This morning, the Blast homepage was briefly replaced by a black background with the red letters “Hacked” (See photo below) and all of our blogs and articles were unreachable.
This appears to be the same hacker who successfully attacked Google previously. The Hacker News interviewed [email protected], who claimed to be hacking since 2007, working alone, and only using private exploits and zero-day attacks.

In an online posting, [email protected] claimed responsibility for launching the homepage defacement attack.
“While we can respect [email protected]’s abilities, we are disappointed that our websites were hit,” said Blast Magazine editor-in-chief John M. Guilfoil. “What truly concerns me, however, is that InMotion Hosting appeared woefully unable to prevent or defend against this kind of attack, even though homepage defacements have been going on seeming forever. We will consult with InMotion on Monday and plan to press the company to be more proactive in its security if InMotion values its customers.”
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263FPD · Sep 26, 2011

F*cking Cyber Terrorists

CJIS · Sep 26, 2011

I never saw any Problems.

kwflatbed · Sep 26, 2011

It all depends on how you logged into MC, if you logged directly into the forums you had no problem, if you logged into mc.com you got the message.

Gil I just logged in through mc.com and my anti virus picked up a threat.
JS/downloader.agent so there may be still something in there.

CJIS · Sep 26, 2011

kwflatbed said: ↑

It all depends on how you logged into MC, if you logged directly into the forums you had no problem, if you logged into mc.com you got the message.

Gil I just logged in through mc.com and my anti virus picked up a threat.
JS/downloader.agent so there may be still something in there.
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Ah that would explain it. Harry what are you using for an AV program?

kwflatbed · Sep 26, 2011

AVG

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