Network Solutions has reported that a mass compromise of parked domains belonging to their customers affected significantly fewer domains than previously thought.
Last week, researchers at Armorize Technologies discovered an infected widget that was serving malware to people who visited parked domains, which are domains that are registered but lack any owner-provided content.
While Armorize estimated the number of domains affected ranged from 500,000 to 5 million, Network Solutions on 17 August put the total at less than 120,000.
In any case, Network Solutions reported no active websites were impacted, and there was no compromise of the company’s platform.
“We received reports of under-construction pages showing pop-up boxes with Chinese writing in them when viewed from Taiwan; however, when viewing the same page at the same time here in Herndon, Virginia, these boxes didn’t appear,” Network Solutions said in a statement. “It seems this attack targeted Chinese web servers.”
According to Armorize, Network Solutions’ customers have been targeted on multiple occasions so far this year.
“Throughout this year, the shared web hosting industry has been facing increasing attacks from perpetrators of malware,” Network Solutions said. “We are continually working to defend against these and similar types of attacks.”
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