On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mary Hickey <[email protected]> writes: > > > I hope you catch the pimplefaced script-kiddie who did this. What good > > could possibly come of hacking a site where people like yourselves > > unselfishly work together to develop and improve a program that other > > people are then allowed to use for free? Make kids like him do some > > community service...and also publicize the fact that they are random > > cyber-vandals who don't, and probably can't, even write any interesting > > new code. > > It's probably done for money, sadly, and they probably don't even know or > care what the site is for, since the attacks are probably all automated. > > Compromised web hosting sites are used to stage fake copies of bank web > sites (for example) and then used in phishing in conjunction with email > spam to try to get people to go to those sites and enter their passwords > or other private information, at which point they're used to steal money. > Or, more innocuously, they're used to create artificial links to other web > sites for search engine spamming, again to make money. > > It used to be that this sort of thing was mostly done by bored vandals. > These days, that's relatively rare. Most of these attacks are automated > or semi-automated and done at a massive scale by organized crime or by > people hoping to sell the results to organized crime. It's a similar case > for home computer viruses: compromised machines are rented out for > criminal activity, such as spamming or phishing, for about 50 cents a day. > If you can compromise ten thousand machines with an automated attack, you > can make significant money that way. > Unfortunately you're right, Russ. This is an automated attack. It attacked again after each cleanup. I will see if I can clean up the site some day. Maybe even ditch the CMS system and make "static" pages. OK? -Øystein
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