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Notably seclists/nmap is (was?) hosted on Linode and was tampered with in this attack. Apparently, the hackers looked up a Quora list of notable sites hosted o
by err_badprocrast 13y ago
Notably seclists/nmap is (was?) hosted on Linode and was tampered with in this attack.
Apparently, the hackers looked up a Quora list of notable sites hosted on Linode and went after those [2], suggesting that the attackers wanted to burn a 0day for some notoriety or to damage Linode/Coldfusion reputation.
1. Technical info: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/coldfusion-hack-used-to-steal-hosting-providers-customer-data/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/coldfusion-hack-used...
2. http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/40 http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/40