Security News > 2023 > February > GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach

Web hosting giant GoDaddy says unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment.

While GoDaddy discovered the security breach in early December 2022 following customer reports that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains, the attackers had access to the company's network for multiple years.

"Based on our investigation, we believe these incidents are part of a multi-year campaign by a sophisticated threat actor group that, among other things, installed malware on our systems and obtained pieces of code related to some services within GoDaddy," the hosting firm said in an SEC filing.

GoDaddy is now working with external cybersecurity forensics experts and law enforcement agencies worldwide as part of an ongoing investigation into the root cause of the breach.

GoDaddy's disclosed another breach in May 2020, alerting some customers that an attacker used their web hosting account credentials in October 2019 to connect to their hosting account via SSH. In April 2019, scammers also used hundreds of compromised GoDaddy customer accounts to create almost 15,000 subdomains that enabled them to impersonate popular websites and redirect potential victims to spam pages pushing snake oil products.

GoDaddy is one of the largest domain registrars, and it also provides hosting services to over 20 million customers worldwide.

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